A former Cabinet minister in Zimbabwe claims that the ruling party has used revenue from diamond fields in the east of the country to pay $ 70 million worth of T-shirts and caps for 2013 elections. Jonathan Moyo, one of the most bitter and uncertain of the former allies of former president Robert Mugabe, claims that the material of the campaign was organized by former defense minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and then chairman of defense, Constantino Chiwenga. Mugabe was dumped in November and replaced by Mnangagwa.
“In 2013 Zanu-PF used diamond revenues and state funds to buy and ship campaign regalia from DRC and China worth over $70 million,” Moyo wrote on Twitter.
He said party members were “shocked” when they found out the two “had unilaterally done a multi-USD deal in 2012 to buy and ship unapproved 2013 campaign gear from DRC and China”.
State visit to China
Neither Mnangagwa, who is now president, nor Chiwenga, who is now vice president, have responded to Moyo’s claims. Mnangagwa has just made a state visit to China.
Top ruling party official, Engelbert Rugeje told a rally last week that millions of caps and T-shirts had been ordered and would soon arrive in Zimbabwe. He did not say where they had been made, according to the state-owned Herald newspaper.
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