Zimbabwe: Mutsvangwa, Charamba in Vicious Fight

Days after President Robert Mugabe embarrassingly read the wrong speech during the official opening of parliament in September, a war of words through popular social media application Whatsapp exploded between War Veterans minister Chris Mutsvangwa and Presidential spokesperson George Charamba.

Mugabe in September re-read a speech which he had delivered in his state of the nation address in August, with Charamba explaining the humiliating fiasco as a mix-up in the president's office secretariat. However, this triggered a fierce slanging match  a prolonged exchange of insults between Mutsvangwa and Charamba via Whatsapp.

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