Mugabe threatened to beat me: Mutasa

FORMER Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa (pictured) has claimed President Robert Mugabe once threatened to physically assault him for refusing to dump former Vice-President Joice Mujuru at the height of the political fallout between the Zanu PF strongman and his ex-deputy.

He said the incident happened in 2014 shortly before Mujuru and other top Zanu PF officials were hounded out of the ruling party on allegations of plotting to assassinate Mugabe.

Mujuru and her sympathisers later regrouped and founded the opposition Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) party.

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