It never rains, but pours for Zimbabwe’s governing politicians who are falling prey to COVID-19 one after another. Leaders across parts of Southern Africa are struggling against the pandemic as the deadly virus keeps claiming the lives of political elites. In July last year, Perrance Shiri, Zimbabwe’s AgricultureMinister, died of COVID-19. On 15 January, Ellen
Small and Medium Enterprises Minister, Sithembiso Nyoni, survived the chop on losers of the 2008 elections when President Robert Mugabe sacked nine ministers who had lost their seats. Nyoni, who had lost twice in Bulawayo in 2000 and 2005, had moved to the rural constituency of Nkayi North and won. The gamble paid off. Not
Southern African country has so far recorded 33,388 cases, 1,217 deaths Jeffrey Moyo | 01.02.2021
HARARE, Zimbabwe
The novel coronavirus claimed the life of another former minister in Zimbabwe on Sunday night, his family announced Monday.
Tendai Savanhu, a former deputy minister for Lands and Resettlement, was 52 years of age.
In a Twitter post, Zimbabwe’s exiled former minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, who is also a relative of Savanhu, said: “We are in deep pain over his untimely and sad departure.”
Savanhu was fired from the country’s ruling Zimbabwe Africa National Union Patriotic Front last year following allegations that he had collaborated with the country’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change Alliance in an orchestrated plot to topple President Emmerson Mnangagwa through street protests.