State bankrolled Grace Mugabe rallies

First Lady Grace Mugabe's meet-the-people rallies where she donated agricultural equipment to Zanu-PF supporters were funded by the State, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa said yesterday.

Chinamasa was responding to a question by Bulawayo South MP Eddie Cross (MDC-T), who wanted to know who financed Grace's rallies and the expenditure incurred.

The equipment Grace donated was from a Brazilian facility which the Ministry of Agriculture entered into to boost the agricultural sector.

Meanwhile, government made a U-turn on the ban of domestication of quail birds, with Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa telling the House that there was no Government Gazette published to that effect.