A fit Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was today in
cabinet undertaking his daily routine, putting to bed malicious and mischievous
social media claims that he was on his deathbed in a South African hospital.
Yesterday, some people in South Africa reportedly held
demonstrations outside what they believed to be the hospital admitting the Vice
President, but the sturdy health status of Dr Chiwenga contradicts a lie that
had been sold out that all is not well in government and the ruling Zanu PF
party.
The purported demonstrations also appeared to paint a
tarnished image on Zanu PF outside the country, and they made it clear that
demonstrations have since become a fashionable medium of desperate politics.
An amused Dr Chiwenga laughed off his health status claims
as he set aside a few minutes to exclusively speak to the ZBC News at his
Munhumutapa offices in Harare after Tuesday’s cabinet seating.
The hospital allegedly said to be where he is admitted has
since dismissed attending to him as a patient while South African opposition
political outfit, EFF has out rightly distanced itself from mobilising the
people who demonstrated outside the hospital in Cape Town.
A jovial Vice President Chiwenga had a lighter interaction
with the ZBC News, emphasising the centrality of understanding the history of
the liberation struggle to the well being of Zimbabweans, especially the
youths.
After realising that the Cape Town hoax was running out of
steam and was soon to be exposed, the originators of the baseless stories had
already crafted another ruse, claiming that the Vice President had been airlifted
to a Russian hospital.
Social media continues to be abused in the peddling of
falsehood for political capital. zbc
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