By Own Correspondent| Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has allayed fears that Vice President Constantino Guvheya Chiwenga is critically ill in South Africa saying the VP and his wife Mary are in good health.

Charamba said the VP is in South Africa for a routine medical check up after they were affected by the White City bombing incident.

Said Charamba while speaking to the state media:

“Both General Chiwenga and Amai Chiwenga are in good health. They were affected by the White City bombing incident.

It happened in the middle of elections, so it was not possible for him to go for a thorough medical examination.

After the elections, we had the pressure of forming a new Government and again he couldn’t go out for that examination.

His wife, as you may be aware, went for medical treatment alongside other officials. A decision was then taken that now that elections are behind us, and also that the new Government has been constituted, the General should now go for a thorough medical examination.

I said to him vakuru chimboteereraika muviri (tend to your body) and he said no, no Charamba.

He also told me of the plans he has because he was telling me that by harvest time this coming season we should never have any difficulties with cooking oil.

So, uppermost on his mind are projects which are meant to revamp our irrigation infrastructure. Barring the unforeseen, we expect the couple back into the country sometime this week.

So, he flew out last Tuesday alongside his wife who was also due for a review in South Africa where they then went for medical checks. And in the case of the wife, it was a review.”

Chiwenga, a liberation war veteran, also has a historic health complaint from the independence war.

Added Charamba:

“Apart from the White City Stadium injury, the General was injured towards ceasefire in the Chiduku area in Hwedza and for a long time he had a bullet lodged in his lung.

There is that historical problem yavagara vainayo (which he has always had) over and above what happened at White City Stadium.”-StateMedia

That then made it urgent for him to then get that thorough medical attention I am talking about.”