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The US has removed the late Zanu PF stalwart, Shuvai Mahofa, late former Matabeleland North Provincial Minister, Sithokozile Mathuthu and the late former Deputy Senate President, Naison Ndlovu from its list of targeted sanctions against senior ruling party and government officials.
Factions in the ruling Zanu PF party are burning the midnight oil in a bid to influence President Robert Mugabe’s choice of successor to Shuvai Mahofa, who was the Provincial Affairs minister for Masvingo before her death on August 14.
President Robert Mugabe on Saturday waded into the controversy that followed Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s sudden illness, saying some Zanu PF leaders are now accusing him of witchcraft.
President Robert Mugabe, who arrived in the country in the early hours of yesterday morning, did not show up at the burial of Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Shuvai Mahofa at the National Heroes Acre in Harare, amid speculation that woeful events of the past few days might have taken their toll on him, the Daily News can report.
President Robert Mugabe has been briefed that senior Zanu PF officials in Masvingo are telling their supporters that Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa fell ill after eating ice-cream from the first family’s dairy, an explosive report shedding light on the shocking extent of divisions in Zanu PF reveals.
In what is turning out to be a bad month for Zanu PF, another key figure for the ruling party George Rutanhire passed on yesterday.
Succession battles in Zanu PF escalated yesterday as it emerged that the confusion surrounding the burial of the late senior party official Shuvai Mahofa is being caused by the party’s warring two factions with one of the groups not keen on having acting President Phelekezela Mphoko preside over her burial at the National Heroes Acre in Harare today.
Zimbabwe’s beleaguered first lady Grace Mugabe hounded the now deceased provincial minister for Masvingo, Shuvai Mahofa, just moments before the heroine tragically passed away as a result of hypertension related illnesses.
Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister and Zanu PF Politburo member Senator Shuvai Mahofa, who was declared a national heroine, will be buried at the National Heroes Acre next Wednesday.
President Mugabe has conferred national heroine status on Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs Senator Shuvai Ben Mahofa who died on Monday. She was 76.