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President Emmerson Mnangagwa is being accused of “abrogating his duties” by allegedly “subcontracting” his wife Auxillia following her mysterious trip alongside her twin sons, Collins and Sean, to Belarus where they met President Alexander Lukashenko.
By Luke Tamborinyoka
Today is the 57th anniversary of the Unilateral Declaration of independence (UDI) when the racist colonialist Ian Douglas Smith unilaterally declared independence from Britain on 11 November 1965. The UDI spawned a serious political and economic crisis for the oppressive regime in the then Salisbury.
Students of politics and history will remember the famous Madzimbamuto case, which remains the locus classicus in matters to do with the doctrine of necessity and other related legal concepts.
Similarly, Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa may have unilaterally declared this country a monarchy as we have seen his wife transacting matters of the State when she is just but a mere First Lady and not a State actor.
Executive authority is not sexually transmitted. We told Mugabe the same message when his wife started pilfering executive authority by berating and publicly excoriating government officials at Zanu PF rallies.
By Tendai Chabvuta
On 16 February the Herald newspaper announced that the First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa would be carrying out a national competition to train Zimbabweans on the use and preparation of traditional foods to improve their health and also fight the coronavirus pandemic.
The Herald report hailed the competition as some version of the world-renowned MasterChef. To the uninitiated this would be a noble idea indeed from the one who calls herself the “mother of nation”. But that cannot be true – the initiative is naïve, insensitive to the plight of Zimbabweans and some puerile grandstanding of someone who does not understand the nation’s problems but is hellbent on proving some strain of stubbornness and arrogance.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s wife Auxilia and son Collins have been cited as the masterminds behind the attempt to smuggle more than 6kg to Dubai by suspended Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya.
Aspiring Zanu PF Mazowe District Coordinating Committee (DCC) chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara has been accused of abusing the First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa’s name in his campaigns for the post in the forthcoming DCC elections.
First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa on Tuesday threw caution to the wind after she ordered her driver to pursue a speeding Zupco bus at the 370 kilometre peg near Shangani, Zim Morning Post has learnt.
A group of retired US diplomats and civil society leaders has penned a letter of protest to Harvard University, after Auxillia Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s first lady, picked up an award for contributions to healthcare in her country, where a huge doctors’ strike has brought medical services to a halt.
The letter was addressed to the heads of Harvard University and Harvard Global Health Catalyst.
Zimbabwe government spokesman Nick Mangwana says what appears to be a leaked audio tape of the country’s first lady Auxilia Mnangagwa has been doctored.
First lady Auxilia Mnangagwa is educating widows on inheritance laws to empower them to continue living on their matrimonial property until they die in the wake of rampant violation by in-laws who take advantage of their ignorance, fear of social stigma and the inaccessibility of the courts.
First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa yesterday visited Cricket Mine in the Battlefields area, the scene of the recent mine shaft disaster that has so far claimed 24 lives.