Youths bussed for Miss Tourism Zimbabwe

ORGANISERS of the recently held Miss Tourism Zimbabwe (MTZ) have been accused of bussing school pupils and Zanu PF youths to fill up the Harare International Conference Centre, as First Lady Grace Mugabe, the Zanu PF women’s league boss, was the guest of honour.

Sources privy to the development told NewsDay that the move was meant to please the First Lady after the organisers only managed to sell a few tickets.

“After tickets failed to sell, the pageant organisers, working with some top Zanu PF officials aligned to the G40 faction, mobilised youths from different parts of the country and about 400 pupils from different schools in Harare to fill up the venue, so that the First Lady would not attend a pageant in an empty venue,” the source said.

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