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Zimbabwe minister suspended for saying Mugabe is old
Suspended Zimbabwean minister Tracey Mutinhiri. COURTESY|NEHANDA RADIO |
By KITSEPILE NYATHI in Harare. Posted Wednesday, August 17 2011 at 08:32
A Zimbabwean deputy minister could lose her seat as an MP as well as her government post after she was suspended from her party for allegedly saying President Robert Mugabe is old.
Ms Tracey Mutinhiri whose daughter Vimbai was one of Zimbabwe's representatives in this year's Big Brother Amplified reality television show was suspended from Zanu-PF party at the weekend.
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
Suspended Zimbabwean minister Tracey Mutinhiri. COURTESY|NEHANDA RADIO |
By KITSEPILE NYATHI in Harare. Posted Wednesday, August 17 2011 at 08:32
A Zimbabwean deputy minister could lose her seat as an MP as well as her government post after she was suspended from her party for allegedly saying President Robert Mugabe is old.
Ms Tracey Mutinhiri whose daughter Vimbai was one of Zimbabwe's representatives in this year's Big Brother Amplified reality television show was suspended from Zanu-PF party at the weekend.
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