HARARE – With the majority of the citizenry getting poorer by the day owing to the biting economic crisis, the cash-strapped government
of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has splurged over $2 million on top-of-the-range Land Rover Discovery vehicles for Cabinet ministers.
The ‘Daily News on Sunday’ can exclusively reveal that these fuel-guzzlers were acquired at an estimated cost of $107 000 each, translating to a combined total of over $2,14 million for the 20 full Cabinet ministers handpicked by
Mnangagwa in September this year.
Dubbed in motoring circles as a monster car, the new Land Rover Discovery has many exclusive
signature features that make it a preserve for the rich.
A check on the Land Rover website indicates that the car offers a wide range of optional extras that
take personalisation further and is fitted with a suite of intuitive technologies such as adaptive
dynamics that constantly monitors its movement, reacting accordingly to minimise body roll and give the driver exclusive comfort.
Other fitted technologies include the surrounding digital camera system, a premium audio system that delivers perfectly optimised sound quality
and permanent four wheel drive. It also has a 20-inch five split-spoke ‘Style 502’ alloy wheels, semi aniline leather seats, front climate seats,
heated rear seats, with 20-way driver/20-way front passenger seats and driver and passenger seat memory as well as xenon headlamps with signature lighting (includes headlamp power- wash and a choice of either fixed or sliding
panoramic roof (including power blinds).
Deputy Information minister Energy Mutodi confirmed the development but said the vehicles were purchased after the seismic power shift in
government and not after the July 30 polls.
“The vehicles you are referring to — that the ministers were given — are those that had not been allocated to anyone from the last Cabinet; so they have been there, parked,” he said.
“They are not newly-acquired as Treasury has made it clear that it will purchase new vehicles

for ministers in the first quarter of 2019,” added
Mutodi.Daily News