“I can confirm that we received reports that Cde Gumbwanda was admitted at Chiredzi Hospital after suffering from pneumonia,” said Zanu PF Masvingo Provincial chairperson.

Zanu PF Member of Parliament (MP) for Zaka East constituency, Caston Ringisai Gumbwanda has died. He was 67.

Gumbwanda died today at Cooporate 24  private hospital in Harare where he had been admitted after suffering from pneumonia.

Minister of Sate for  Masvingo province who is also Zanu-PF provinvial  Chair Ezra Chadzamira  confirmed the loss.

“I can confirm that we received reports that Cde Gumbwanda was admitted at Chiredzi Hospital after suffering from pneumonia.  He was then transferred to Harare where he died today . This is a big blow to us as a party and a big loss to the people of Masvingo province and Zimbabwe as a whole,” said  Chadzamira.

Sources within the ruling party indicated that Gumbwanda contracted Pneumonia a couple of weeks ago after he got a lift on the back of a pick up truck while hiking from Harare to Masvingo.

Parliamentarians in the current parliament have not been provided with vehicles as has been the norm. Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube was reluctant to buy the expensive top of the range vehicles for the over three hundred legislators as a government expenditure cutting measure.

ZANU PF parliamentarians made the job easier for Mthuli Ncube when they declared that they did not want the parliament vehicles as the country was going through tough austerity measures.

Gumbwanda took over the seat from his ZANU PF colleague the late MP Samson Mukanduri who died last year.