Mutsvangwa accuses Chinamasa of trying to topple Mugabe

War Veterans Minister Chris Mutsvangwa, has reportedly hit out at a fellow cabinet minister, accusing him of working with the West to try and topple President Robert Mugabe.

This comes a few days after Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa urged Zimbabweans to desist from politicising the country's economic problems by blaming outsiders.

Zimbabwe has been reeling under economic sanctions which were imposed in 2002 after rising political violence ahead of that year's presidential elections.

"We should work out strategies to get those sanctions lifted, that means more engagement with those countries that say sanctions should continue. We should talk to them and we should consider it as a process," Chinamasa was quoted as saying.

Chinamasa said this last week while addressing delegates attending a round-table discussion entitled Economic Prospects for Zimbabwe and Re-engagement Process.

"If we ignore that reality, we will not go anywhere, we just go in a vicious circle. We must engage, we have to engage, if we don't we are shutting all avenues for development," he said.