VP gets $4m mansion

Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko is set to move out of his upmarket hotel room – a year after he checked in – as the government has finally secured a $4 million house for him in Harare’s plush Grange suburb.

After NewsDay revealed that Mphoko had been living in the hotel for almost 300 days, pressure on him to leave the presidential suite had been ratcheted up in the past few weeks, culminating in the arrest of activists who demonstrated against him last week at Rainbow Towers Hotel.

Local Government ministry permanent secretary George Mlilo yesterday said the government had finally secured a house for Mphoko, although he declined to reveal its location and value.

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