Mutsvangwa stages coup in Midlands

ZIMBABWE National Liberation War Veterans’ Association (ZNLWVA) chairman, Christopher Mutsvangwa’s acolytes in Midlands province, who had been locked out of their offices at the height of an acrimonious internal fight for control last year, found their way back this week.

Mutsvangwa’s provincial executive had been locked out of its offices for the past five months by a rival faction sympathetic to Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Mandiitawepi Chimene. Chimene and Mutsvangwa reportedly belong to different factions of Zanu PF in the ongoing succession cat-fight.

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