Former president Robert Mugabe’s Blue Roof mansion and other properties are registered under the Zanu PF party. This was confirmed by...
Former president Robert Mugabe’s Blue Roof mansion and
other properties are registered under the Zanu PF party.
This was confirmed by the party’s Secretary for finance,
Patrick Chinamasa. He told The Standard: “It’s true that the properties
are registered in the party name, but why don’t you go and talk to his
daughter?”
Sources said Mugabe’s daughter, who was given the Mt
Pleasant house as a wedding gift in 2014, approached Chinamasa a fortnight ago
pleading with him to help transfer the title of the properties.
President Mnangagwa and his team are said to have told the family
in heated meetings that they risked losing the Blue Roof if they did not accede
to government’s demands that the long-time ruler should be buried at the Heroes
Acre.
Mugabe’s family on Friday agreed that he would be buried at
the Heroes Acre only after they were promised that the government would build a
mausoleum for him.
Gideon Gono who attended the meetings yesterday said he did
not know anything about the threats.
Information permanent secretary Nick Mangwana yesterday said
official mourning ended yesterday.
He said it was now up to the family to decide where to keep
the body until burial.
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