Mnangagwa flown to South Africa after alleged poison scare in Gwanda
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been flown to South Africa today (Sunday) around 2pm after an alleged poisoning scare in Gwanda on Saturday, Nehanda Radio sources have confirmed.
Aides claimed an assassination attempt on Mnangagwa in Gwanda after he started complaining of massive chest pains, while sitting at the high table, shortly after having a meal with other high level government delegates.
Mnangagwa began vomiting blood and lost consciousness. He was first taken to Gwanda Hospital for treatment before “a suspicious and worried” army general Constantine Chiwenga intervened by directing that an airforce helicopter take him to Claybank Hospital in Gweru instead.
A Nehanda Radio source told us on Sunday;
“Private Flight ZS- SRU departed to Lanseria with VP ED MNANGAGWA in the company of wife Auxillia MNANGAGWA, E D MNANGAGWA Jnr, Marry MUBAIWA, wife to CDF CHIWENGA, Charles MPANDUKI and Dr CHIMEDZA. The flight departed from Manyame Air Base.”
“He is stable and well. But military is not taking any chances. So they want tests done to ascertain exactly what poison was used,” the source told us.
Dr Paul Chimedza is a politician cum medical doctor who was sacked from government in December 2014 as the deputy minister of Health. He was at the time accused of supporting a faction of the party that was backing then Vice President Joice Mujuru’s presidential ambitions.
Lanseria International Airport is a privately owned international airport that is situated north of Randburg and Sandton to the north west of Johannesburg, South Africa. The airport can handle aircraft up to the size of the Boeing 757-300.
