HARARE
–
Deputy
finance
minister
David
Mnangagwa’s
driver
died
suddenly
at
his
hotel
room
on
Sunday,
hours
after
the
Zanu
PF
annual
conference
ended
in
Bulawayo,
ZimLive
can
reveal.
It
is
the
latest
mishap
to
befall
President
Emmerson
Mnangagwa’s
son
whose
Harare
home,
which
is
guarded
by
police,
was
broken
into
twice
and
eventually
set
on
fire
by
unknown
individuals
in
June
this
year.
Police
were
called
to
the
Greys
Inn
hotel
in
the
early
hours
of
Sunday,
October
27,
where
they
found
Ishmael
Maburisa
already
dead.
Hotel
sources
said
they
suspected
that
he
died
from
diabetic
shock.
Before
his
death,
Maburisa
had
appeared
at
the
hotel’s
reception
shouting
“get
me
food
please”
several
times.
It
is
thought
he
was
having
an
episode
of
hypoglycemia
or
low
blood
glucose
levels
which
can
be
reversed
by
eating
or
drinking
carbohydrates.
“They
gave
him
porridge,
the
only
food
that
was
there.
He
went
back
to
his
room
but
after
a
short
period
he
started
twitching
and
convulsing
as
though
he
was
having
an
epileptic
episode
and
he
unfortunately
died,”
the
source
said.
Police
attended
the
scene
and
found
diabetes
medication
in
his
room.
An
internal
police
memo
of
the
incident,
seen
by
ZimLive,
identified
Maburisa
as
David
Mnangagwa’s
driver.
It
is
not
clear
if
the
deputy
minister
was
still
in
Bulawayo
when
Maburisa
died,
or
had
flown
back
to
Harare
at
the
end
of
the
Zanu
PF
conference
on
Saturday.
Police
declined
to
comment.
Unknown
individuals
broke
into
the
Borrowdale
home
of
the
president’s
son
on
June
23
and
again
on
June
25.
In
the
second
incident,
three
bullets
were
left
outside
his
bedroom
door
and
three
more
outside
the
house.
Then,
on
June
28, the
house
caught
fire under
unclear
circumstances.