The new deal for the form first Zimbabwe’s family might just be too much for the tax payers to bear.
Former president of Zimbabwe’s wife Grace Mugabe has pleaded with Zimbabwe’s new leaders to allow her to keep her farms, and for a $1-billion university to be built and named after former president Robert Mugabe.
Inside sources who revealed that the former first lady has emerged as a key player in negotiations held on Thursday and Friday. Grace listed several things among her requests, which were that all the Mugabes’ properties, including more than 10 farms, be protected and that all streets and structures named after her husband remain unchanged.
However, the new deal also included Mugabe’s $10-million (about R140-million) pension payout, inclusive of all previous benefits that the former leader enjoyed during his 37-year reign as president.
After it was was announced in August that the government was going to build a state-of-the-art university on Grace’s Manzou Farm in Mazowe at a cost of $1-billion (about R14-billion). It was to be established under the auspices of the Robert Mugabe Foundation, which would be custodian of the institution. She has however insisted that the plans should not be changed
Effort to speak to the new president Emmerson Mnangagwa spokes person has not been successful.
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