HARARE
–
President
Emmerson
Mnangagwa
has
sacked
Apollonia
Munzverengwi
as
Mashonaland
East
Minister
of
State
for
Provincial
Affairs
and
Devolution.
Munzverengwi
was
immediately
replaced
with
Hwedza
North
MP
Itayi
Ndudzo.
Chief
Secretary
to
the
President
and
Cabinet
Martin
Rushwaya
announced
the
changes
in
statement
on
Tuesday
but
did
not
give
any
reasons
behind
the
sacking
of
the
minister,
a
relative
to
Vice
President
Constantino
Chiwenga.
“His
Excellency
the
President
of
the
Republic
of
Zimbabwe,
Cde
E.D
Mnangagwa
has,
in
terms
of
Section
108
(1a)
of
the
Constitution
of
Zimbabwe,
removed
Hon.
Apollonia
Munzverengwi
from
the
Office
of
Minister
of
State
for
Provincial
Affairs
and
Devolution,
Mashonaland
east
with
immediate
effect,”
Rushwaya
said.
Munzverengwi
was
appointed
Provincial
Affairs
Minister
for
Mashonaland
East
in
2018.
While
there
were
no
reasons
given,
it
is
possible
the
minister’s
sacking
could
be
linked
to
soaring
Zanu
PF
factional
wars
pitying
Mnangagwa
and
Chiwenga’s
camps.
Bottled-up
hostilities
between
the
two
Zanu
PF
camps
now
threaten
to
rapture
after
the
Mnangagwa
camp
has
put
up
a
campaign
to
have
the
Zimbabwean
leader
stay
beyond
his
constitutionally
granted
two-term
limits
which
end
in
2028.
VP
Chiwenga’s
loyalists
resist
the
plan
saying
it
was
time
for
the
once
powerful
military
commander
to
ascend
to
the
country’s
most
influential
job.