Seething Matabeleland sweeps away big guns

SOME five months ago, Zimbabwe’s Finance minister Mthuli Ncube sauntered like a decorated knight in shining armour into Cowdray Park, a sprawling settlement north west of Bulawayo.

The professor of economics, who has held the country’s purse for the past five years,  quickly rehabilitated heavily rundown roads to clear his way into Cowdray Park where on arrival he promised heaven on earth for the area’s estimated more than 70 00 residents.

He reportedly acquired a house in the high-density settlement and immediately let Cowdray Park residents taste his enticing future of a “smart city” Cowdray Park by offering them free WiFi hotspots, a proposition  he hoped would help him endear him to this constituency which was created in the 2022  countrywide delimitation exercise following a national census.

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