Chimene claims she exposed Mnangagwa's Tsholotsho Declaration plan

Addressing an extraordinary provincial co-ordination committee meeting in Mutare yesterday, Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Mandi Chimene claimed credit for exposing former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Tsholotsho Declaration.

The Tsholotsho Declaration is believed to have been a succession plan to get Mnangagwa into power after President Robert Mugabe. Said Chimene:

I blew up the Tsholotsho coup. I want to tell you for the first time, on the day in question, they kept on calling me asking where I was and I kept telling them I was coming. When I indicated that I was on the road, they said they were flying to Tsholotsho, and I did not go

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