Mphoko demonstrators to continue picketing

A group of human rights activists, who last week stormed a top Harare hotel demanding that Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko vacates the facility to save taxpayers' money, has threatened to continue picketing the hotel until he has left.

Mphoko has been staying in the presidential suite at Rainbow Towers Hotel with his family since his appointment as Vice-President in December last year, arguing the State had not yet secured him suitable accommodation in Harare.

The activists said the money paid for Mphoko's accommodation should have been channelled towards underfunded sectors such as health and education.