Zimbabwean
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally has reportedly claimed that he was
the one who organised youths and war veterans to heckle the then first
lady Grace Mugabe during an ill-fated Bulawayo presidential youth
interface rally in November.
According to
NewsDay, the ex-war veteran minister Tshinga Dube said that the move was
part of plans to clip Grace's wings, as she had become "uncontrollable"
and "lacked respect for the party elders".
"I want to tell you
this for the first time. I was the one who organised that booing on the
First Lady. I organised some war veterans and youths in Bulawayo and
agreed that if she starts to insult the party leadership and members,
they would then boo her. And it worked," Dube was quoted as saying.
Mugabe was incensed
by party youths who booed Grace and disrupted here speech, as they
denounced her as "too junior" before breaking into a mocking song Into
Oyenzayo Siyayizonda (We don't like what you are doing).
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