By Tinoonga Mawere, Masvingo| First Lady Grace Mugabe plunged Masvingo province into a state of sudden confusion early Friday after she overnight changed the rally date earlier slated for this morning.
Thousands who traveled from remote areas some a hundred kilometres away are currently stranded in town under the scorching life threatening heat after they arrived only to be told the President’s wife is arriving a day later.
Some of the supporters have since been dumped at Liquids Bar in Masvingo where they are to be addressed later by party officials.
Liquids Bar is owned by one Mrs Chivanga a Grace Mugabe loyalist.
Sources told ZimEye.com Mrs Mugabe shifted everything last night.
The reasons are said to be twofold : to save her “political brand” from shame after newsreaders attacked her for cancelling school classes and force-marching kids to the meeting. Other reasons given were because she is plotting attending controversial preacher Walter Magaya’s church service tonight.
“She is attending Prophet Magaya’s all night service,” suggested another source.
Presidential spokesman George Charamba earlier in the week told ZimEye.com he will not comment on what he called the First Lady’s private business.
Charamba told ZimEye.com, “you should find out from the Prophet not from us.”
“You should go by the Prophet, he is the owner of the church. Government does not go to church does it?!
When further grilled on his job description as the Presidential Spokesman which he would be doing disservice by refusing to speak, Charamba replied saying he would not comment on the First Family’s private life.
“Exactly I do so; (but) I don’t do so in terms of their private activities,” he said.