Zanu-PF officials snub Mnangagwa

VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa cut a lone figure during his visit to Mutare yesterday as no Government or Zanu-PF officials pitched up to welcome him on his arrival at the Golden Peacock and Amber hotels, where he addressed a consultative workshop on human rights and captains of industries, respectively.

Mnangagwa, who was on official Government business, first went to Golden Peacock Hotel where he arrived in a convoy of two vehicles, disembarked and walked all the way up to the hotel conference room with his aides only.

At Amber Hotel, the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Mike Bimha, was the only senior Government official to receive him together with a few officials from the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI).

Key absentees at the CZI indaba included the Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs, Mandi Chimene, who was supposed to deliver welcome remarks, Provincial Administrator Fungai Mbetsa and the Zanu-PF provincial leadership.

Zanu-PF provincial chairperson Samuel Undenge, who is also Energy and Power Development Minister, only pitched up in the afternoon during a tour of Quest Motors and Cairns Foods.