VICE President Constantino Chiwenga, who has been away for
the past four months receiving medical treatment in China, has fully recovered
and resumed his official duties yesterday, starting with the regular top-level
Monday briefing.
The VP arrived in Harare during the early hours of Saturday
and President Mnangagwa visited him at home later in the day and noted that the
Vice-President was fit and raring to start work.
“I am extremely relieved that my brother is back and is in
good health,” the President said. VP
Chiwenga yesterday attended the Monday briefing chaired by President Mnangagwa.
After the briefing, VP Chiwenga, who was in high spirits,
told our Harare Bureau at his Munhumutapa Offices that the meeting was
fantastic and had gone well.
“You know in Government we have our morning briefing every
Monday. So we have had that and it went on very well with the President and the
team that he works with. We reviewed what transpired in the past week and what
needs to be done this week. Everything went on very well.”
The VP also took the opportunity to show his love for
farming and updated the Herald on activities at his farm.
He said the main reason why he joined the liberation
struggle together with many Zimbabweans against the Ian Smith regime was to
ensure that the country had enough food.
“In some of the fields the maize has germinated but I told
them not to plant in all the fields because the rains are quite erratic and the
dams are drying up,” said VP Chiwenga.
“Tobacco is also doing very well and planting is
continuing. We received 22mm of rainfall at the farm this week, which fell in a
very short space of time. The hectarage that has been planted for now is almost
coming to 200 for maize and 60 hectares for tobacco and we are continuing with
planting. The figures that I am giving you are for two or three days ago.”
Earlier, Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and
Cabinet (Presidential Communications) Mr George Charamba had said the VP was
chatty and had actively participated in all the discussions that took place
during the morning briefing.
“The VP arrived at the Office at 8:45AM and we had our long
Monday briefing,” said Mr Charamba. Herald
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