One of the charges in a long list of accusations was that
she openly boasted about her association with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party. She allegedly told her colleagues that Mr Tsvangirai will soon takeover from Mugabe,87 because the veteran ruler was now old.
"Sources in Mashonaland East province said Comrade Mutinhiri allegedly boasted to party members that MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai would be the next Head of State as President Mugabe was old," the state owned
Herald newspaper said on Tuesday.
If the provincial executive's decision is accepted by the party's national disciplinary committee, Ms Mutinhiri will lose her parliamentary seat and the Cabinet post.
Indiscipline
A Zanu-PF provincial chairman Mr Ray Kaukonde said the deputy minister's suspension was meant to curb indiscipline in the party.
"There are some people who have been appointed into government through the recommendations of the party at grassroots level and think they have grown bigger than the party," he told the paper.
"This move would show the ministers that they were deployed by Zanu-PF and cannot grow bigger than the party. They could be recalled to the party."
Source: Africa Review