By Own Corespondent | ZBC news reporter Tendai Munengwa, has joined politics.

The 40 year old journalist is eying Mount Darwin South constituency parliamentary seat which was under the former Zanu PF political commissar and former Local Government minister, Saviour Kasukuwere.

Munengwa who is contesting on a Zanu PF ticket is battling with businessman James Makamba, and Zanu PF youth wing political commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu in the party’s primary elections due in few weeks time.

Makamba is being discredited by local villagers for having skipped the country before the finalisation of his externalisation allegations he was arrested on in 2005.

Tsengamu on the other hand is said to be popular in Mount Darwin Central than in Mount Darwin South.

Munengwa at the weekend was in the constituency where he visited the local chief Matope on a familiarization tour.

After visiting Chief Matope, he donated tonnes of cement, roof-sheets, windows and furniture for the completion of a classroom block at Chiunye secondary school.