Own Correspondent|President Emmerson Mnangagwa will today yet again break his official leave to meet with the visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

Under normal circumstances, Yi should have held the closed door meeting with Acting President Constantino Chiwenga but highly placed sources within the presidency have indicated to ZimEye.com that Mnangagwa has bulldozed himself back into the office to meet with Yi.

The sources indicated that Mnangagwa appears to be jittery on Chiwenga’s relations with China and would not have his deputy meet with the Chinese alone.

Mnangagwa is officially on leave until the end of January but last week took a surprise appearance when he decided to meet the Presidential Advisory Committee which was meant to have met with Chiwenga as the Acting President.

Historically, former President Robert Mugabe would take his leave and go out of the country throughout the period but uncertain Mnangagwa opted to have his leave in the country where he has been making sporadic appearances at his official duties.

Chiwenga was treated in China for over four months and on his return to Zimbabwe after a long spell was met by the Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe with Mnangagwa not aware of the unexpected return of his deputy.

Speculations are high that Chiwenga is working with the Chinese on a plan to remove Mnangagwa from power in another coup.

Mnangagwa was propelled to presidency by Chiwenga who was then commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces in a military coup over former President Robert Mugabe.