NEWLY-APPOINTED Zanu PF women’s league boss Mabel Chinomona
said she survived a heart attack following her expulsion from the ruling party
more than a decade ago after being accused of being part of the infamous
Tsholotsho Declaration which was allegedly aimed at staging a coup against
former President Robert Mugabe.
Speaking during celebrations in Marondera recently to mark
her recent elevation as Zanu PF women’s league boss Chinomona, who is also
Mutoko North MP, said had it not been the timely financial assistance she got
from Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa and former provincial
chairperson Ray Kaukonde, she could have died.
“Let me narrate what transpired: Exactly 12 years ago, on
December 22, I had a heart attack over the Tsholotsho issue,” she revealed.
Chinomona, who is also Deputy Speaker of the National
Assembly, suffered a series of verbal attacks and expulsion even at provincial
level allegedly at the instigation of her predecessor in the women’s league and
former First Lady Grace Mugabe.
She said Parirenyatwa and Kaukonde chartered a plane after
Air Zimbabwe refused to travel with her due to her condition.
“The doctors had said if I was not taken either to South
Africa or the United Kingdom, just kiss her goodbye, it’s over,” Chinomona
said.
“My relatives gathered and failed even to raise one-tenth
of the needed amount for the operation. But Parirenyatwa with the help of
Kaukonde, I will not stop telling you this, they chartered a plane because Air
Zimbabwe refused saying they would not travel with a corpse.”
Chinomona was recently appointed women’s league boss
following the ouster of former President Robert Mugabe, his wife Grace and the
G40 cabal. Before her fallout with Grace, Chinomona was the women’s league
secretary for the commissariat.
“I held the provincial women’s league post for 15 years. I
know this province from corner to corner. But there is someone who came and
just expelled me. How do you see it? Someone saying we cannot work with this
person, but Zanu PF is good, after being a member for a long time here we are,”
she said.
Chinomona said her new role was a reward for working hard.
The celebrations which were organised by the province were
attended by Senate president Edna Madzongwe, politburo member Omega Hungwe,
youth league boss Pupurai Togarepi, Provincial Affairs minister David
Musabayana and several MPs, among others. Newsday
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