Mugabe’s backyard on fire

ZANU PF leader President Robert Mugabe’s Mashonaland West backyard went up in smoke on Saturday as two factions – one led by Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo and the other by Mugabe’s nephew Edwin Matibiri — engaged in a verbal face-off during a charity fundraising event superintended by party national chairman Simon Khaya Moyo.

Report by Everson Mushava

The fracas led to the arrest of Matibiri — who is also eyeing Chombo’s Zvimba North constituency — after a youth from Chombo’s camp alleged that he had been verbally assaulted.

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