By Paul Nyathi|Hardly a week after an assassination attempt which the state broadcaster the ZBC blamed on people from Matabeleland region, President Emmerson Mnangagwa will on Wednesday return to the region to address a campaign rally in Hwange Matabeleleland North province.

Mnangagwa escaped death by a whisker when a bomb was thrown at him as he made his way out of a similar campaign rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo on Saturday afternoon.

He will address the rally in Hwange soon after presiding over a ground-breaking ceremony at the Zimbabwe Power Company expansion project.

The ground-breaking ceremony will be held at ZPC power station in the morning while the Zanu-PF rally has been set for Hwange Colliery Stadium in the afternoon.

Zesa has donated 5 000 litres of fuel.

Water will be provided through bowsers at the venues as the coal mining town faces critical water challenges.