Minister of Special Affairs John Nkomo told a visiting United States official that the government had decided to let village headmen distribute food because they knew their communities better than non-governmental organisations. He told the official, Malik Chaka, that the policy requiring humanitarian food relief to be administered through village headmen and rural councils was
Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front deputy Secretary for Youth Saviour Kasukuwere was among the senior party officials that wanted Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa to be “rubbed out”, Chinamasa’s wife said. Monica Chinamasa is reported to have confided to an American who was close to the family that party Secretary for Finance David Karamanzira, Kasukuwere, Minister