President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s chief of protocol Munyaradzi Kajese has resigned after a career spanning over three decades in the presidency, reports said Thursday.

Kajese was one of former president Robert Mugabe’s top aides who found accommodation in the new regime of President Emmerson Mnangagwa following a military coup in November 2017.

Jonathan Moyo, one of Mugabe’s former ministers now living in exile, last month claimed Mugabe “was betrayed by aides who turned traitors in the November 2017 military coup”. The others were Mugabe’s former spokesman George Charamba and Chief Cabinet Secretary Misheck Sibanda.

The Business Times reports that Kajese retired after reaching the retirement age of 65 years.

Chitsaka Chipaziwa, Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Geneva, Switzerland, is expected to take over from Kajese. – Byo24