Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Nicholas Goche remains in critical condition in hospital. He was admitted on Tuesday.
A doctor at the hospital who spoke on condition of anonymity yesterday said Minister Goche was still in the Intensive Care Unit.
“He has stabilised but he is still in the woods,” the doctor said.
“He is still in the ICU but we are monitoring him.”
Doctors refused to disclose his ailment but it is understood Minister Goche is suffering from hypertension.
Goche missed the last Zanu-PF Politburo meeting before Congress together with Vice President Joice Mujuru who was also reportedly sick on Wednesday.
The two were named as kingpins in the plot to assassinate President Mugabe.
The State-controlled weekly newspaper, The Sunday Mail, alleged last week that its “investigations” had revealed that Goche, “made contingencies for such a scenario (Mugabe’s assassination) during recent meetings with potential hit men in South Africa and Israel”.
This week Goche dramatically quit Zanu PF’s violent central committee elections in Bindura, charging angrily that he was now completely fed up with the ugly factional and succession wars that are devouring the ruling party.
Goche’s sensational abandonment of the elections, which leaves his Cabinet position in doubt, came after violent hired thugs, who were baying for his blood, besieged a tempestuous provincial meeting in the Mashonaland Central capital.
Traumatised witnesses at the chaotic meeting variously described the scenes on the ground as “hell” and “completely bewildering”.
