Marry Mubaiwa Chiwenga has dragged the name of Zimbabwe President ED “Crocodile” Mnangagwa into murky waters after she told the court that he(Mnangagwa) gave her US$30 000 to follow the then-ailing Chiwenga who was in China right after the alleged attempted murder, thus questioning the logic of the accusations or making ED an accomplice in the crime.
While portraying Chiwenga as a liar over made up attempted murder and externalisation stories, Marry’s team threw Mnangagwa under the bus, telling the court that he should not have sponsored her trip to China if she had tried to kill her husband in South Africa.
The court papers revealed that when Chiwenga was in China for further treatment after ‘the attempted murder’, the retired General made a request to President Mnangagwa to have her flown to China so that she could be by his bedside.
Meanwhile, there are reports saying that the US $1 million spent on cars and houses in South Africa by Marry is “just small change” she pulled out of a stash of cash she found inside General Chiwenga’s Borrowdale Mansion.
But what has been a heated talking point among citizens is how Chiwenga, a civil servant in the Zimbabwe Defence Force until his elevation to the vice-presidency two years ago after the ousting of former president Robert Mugabe, had acquired the millions of dollars he now claims were “externalised” by Mubaiwa.
Many citizens took to Twitter to air their disbelief over Chiwenga’s huge wealth in a country where many people are surviving on less than a dollar a day.
An average government worker in Zimbabwe earns around RTGS1,000, which translates to about $50 per month. RTGS stands for Real Time Gross Transfer dollars, or RTGS dollars, Zimbabwe’s official currency.
