Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Sibusiso Busi Moyo was Wednesday morning reported dead after contracting COVID-19.

Calls to the coup announcer were failing completely at the time when his relatives were neither picking calls.

The country has been thrown into mourning. Foreign Affairs minister @MinisterSBMoyo is reported to have passed on. Highly placed sources say the Coup announcer who has been unwell for a long time tested positive to #COVID19 two days ago. #StayAtHome #StaySafe, HSTV reported.

Moyo had underlying health condition which involved struggle with a kidney ailment for two years.

He was famous for announcing the coup that toppled Robert Mugabe from power under the lines: The President, of the Republic of Zimbabwe, and Commander in Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, Cde R.G. Mugabe and his family are safe and sound and their security is guaranteed.

We are only targeting criminals around him who are committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice. As soon as we have accomplished our mission we expect that the situation will return to normalcy.

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