Sundaymail EditorFormer Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial chair Ray Kaukonde has fled to South Africa after being linked to a plot to topple President Mugabe and replace him with Vice President Joice Mujuru.
President Mugabe yesterday revealed: “We hear Kaukonde is now in South Africa. That is why he is not here.”
Kaukonde is believed to be the main financier of the Mujuru faction. His centrality to the plot to unseat President Mugabe was first publicly revealed by First Lady and Zanu-PF Women’s League boss Amai Grace Mugabe, who also accused him of prodding former Politburo member Dr Simba Makoni to rebel and form an opposition party.
He — together with VP Mujuru and secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa — did not attend the 6th Zanu-PF Congress that closed in Harare last night.
Tinaye Agere
Online Reporter