Harare(ZimEye) Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and leader of the MDC-T party(pictured) has come under intense pressure over his controversial appointment of Jacqueline Zwambila who he made Ambassador to Australia.
Questions were this week raised both within and outside the MDC-T party over his appointment of Zwambila who is under investigation for soiling the government’s reputation in Australia.
A senior party official and top Tsvangirai personal aide who spoke on condition of anonymity revealed the general distaste against Tsvangirai in his own party:
‘There is corruption-huwori in the Prime Minister’s office… I don’t want to be quoted but you don’t need to look further than the Prime Minister’s office,’ he said.
Another female Tsvangirai-aide went on to claim that the prime minister strangely favoured Zwambila above more qualifying professionals in the party and party members were shocked ‘when she came from nowhere’ and was rocketed into the powerful ambassadorial post.
Reports claim that Zwambila stripped naked in front of embassy staff in November last year. Zwambila denied the charges and soon won a lawsuit against an Australian newspaper stating that she had not been consulted on the reports.
However, when ZimEye contacted Zwambila over new charges of indecent behaviour in May 2011 and abuse of a male employee, the envoy did not respond, and only issued a threat to sue after five days of rigorous consultations.
In December, her son Takunda was caught driving the Zimbabwean government’s diplomatic (ambassadorial) car, a BMW 745 series, Reg No D.C. 9***. He was also found to have an excess amount of alcohol intake and ‘was visibly drunk’ and was soon deported from the country and Zwambila did not reveal the matter to her employers, according to reports.
The ZANU PF party has called for Zwambila to be recalled.
“The authorities should just do the obvious and honourable thing in this particular case by recalling this woman and send her back to her asylum home, MDC-T”, said Professor Jonathan Moyo, ZANU PF’s information spin doctor.
“If they fail to do that, attention will shift from this woman to them for their inaction. Not only Australians, but even ordinary Zimbabweans, now wonder how such a person managed to go that far,” he said.
He added that Zwambila’s behaviour was a “serious indictment on the calibre of MDC-T” officials.
Meanwhile the permanent secretary in the Foreign Office revealed that Zwambila’s matter has now been escalated to the principals in Zimbabwe’s Government of national unity.
“That issue is now being handled by the principals. We have been waiting for Ambassador Zwambila’s report. We have since received it. As a ministry, we have also submitted our report to the principals and it is now up to them to decide the next course of action,” he said. (ZimEye, Zimbabwe)
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Takakuudzayi kuti Jackie Zwambila hakuna kwaanoenda nyangwe zvake chiri chifebe chedu chine 2 “O” level passes. Munozviti ndisu maHead of State & Govt and Commander-in-Chief asi chifebe chedu Jackie chinoramba chiri kuCanberra chichingoita strip-tease diplomacy. Tichaona kuti mukuru ndiyani pakati paGushungo naSave. Icho!
I struggle to ignore SOMHLABA MTHUNZI’s comments on this forum, they confuse and are immensely infuriating. Mthunzi you sound very sectorial, discriminative and hatefull chiiko nhywe. usually opinions are related to the topic but in this case you are totally poles apart with the issue being debated.”LETS HAVE REGIONAL GOVTS”, “THEY ARE TRIBALISTS”, “PUPPETS OF NDEBELE HATERS” Your mindframe is indictive of a pure, solid and sworn TRIBALIST according to your views as written. you are the type who doesnt want ought to do with SHONAS jst for the sake of. it could be agreed that you are a xenophobic day-dreamer and in dire need of help. the world is changing and societies are transforming, sadly segregative attitudes are surely self-destructive MTHUNZI. no need for hate speech because tribalism have been dealt with once and forevr in ZIM. ttally dissolved not only by NKOMO et al’s progressive stunts but the pple of ZIM have interacted to the point of pro-creating. tiri vakuwasha esifengwini, esikalangeni, manziamnyama. ukuwo vanaDLAMINI, DLODLO et al varikuwombera kwaZVIMBA. maths iyi, get it wisely invested mfowethu. yakapera kare, dont waste time, it’s money if you admire the SA way of governance just move over maan and relieve our nation of these inflammatory views.
PASI NETRIBALISM, PASI NEWE!
Lets have regional governemnts.No party shouldhave total control over the country as MUGABE and TSVANGIRAI have shown they are not capable people to lead a national party.They are tribalists.Each province should have a regional govt like in South AFRICA so that we cannot ahve puppets of Ndebele haters like NKOMO, MOYO MATHEMA AND KHUPHE ruining our lives for thirty opieces of silver.
We are inviting even the EU and the US to our elections,lets see how the mdc do, since they claim popularity.
She is a fat model. But i love fat legs, its just that the butler/house boy guy did not like them. Ndoo pane nyaya. Otherwise she seems to be quite ok. Of course Im not talking abt diplomatic skills, which lack in the whole party. But on reflection, it is the gvt’s fault bcos these new diplomats went for a 6 mnths crush program on diplomacy and some of them like this Zwambila lady had been picked straight from a village line called Rukweza in Tsvangirayi’s Buhera. Now look at the results. I do not to mean that villagers are not good.
KIkikikikikikikikikikiki……Chihuuureee che MDTea chazoteketera pasi rose.Thats why we are calling for elections soonest,so that we can flash out bad apples among our ambassadors.Now it requires all the three Prncipals to discuss the fate of one of Chematama’s many conquibines,this GPA thing is doing Zimbabwe diservice.
Amai ava mazovanyanyira asi editor munovada kana kuti vakakurambai kana vakaita zvavanoita chashamisa chii at least kuMdc kanachirichokwadi tinenge toverenga kuti one ko kuzanu Oppa Muchinguri,Mai Mahofa,Grace Mugabe,Olivia Muchena,Mai Mujuru,Edina Madzogwe vose ava varikugona basa here?Ko Chombo mbavha irikugona basa here Ko iva sekuru Mugabe.Musatinyaudze nenyaya ya Zwambila nokuti akakurambai and futi she is beutiful than those of zanu pf women’s league.Vana can steal cars for their parents so what chashamisa.
I love mdc-T
Tibvireyi apa!! ndiyani akati all MDCs are good people? inga wani variko vakawanda chaizvo kana kuZANU maambasadha asingagoni basa. Hini ndava kuda kuita kunge vese veZANU are innocent. Mumachechi mukazowanikwa mhondi nevaroyi wani?? Hayikona kuita semakazvarwa zuro mhani–nxa!! So?
We will vote for our MDC party come rain or thunder.
An overhoul is iminent in the Mdc portfolio. Starting from its useless party President down to those policeman murderers in jail, including the notorious woman abuser Mbiti. In short, this party should officially close down since people have already rejected them
Problem is Tsvangirai is surrounded by corrupt officials. Look at Lovemore Moyo, Theresa Makone to name just the two. The man just cant see that these people are not doing the party any good.
Birds of same feathers!!! Tsvangirai you are becoming a liability to our MDC.
You alone, your corruption, your lack of decision making is disastarous!!! Its time to pass over the botton to powerfull. assertive and professional people in the party. And they are there!!!
MDC T has got everything you may ask for of an opposition political party on paper . What is very worrisome is that the person at the very top, MORGAN TSVANGIRAI himself exhibits corruption, nepotism and favouratism at the highest level.
It is an open secret that Zwambila is one or was then one of the women Morgan was bedding.And hence the Ambassadorial appointment!!!
His appointment of Hebson Makuvise ( his maternal uncle) from UK ( aftet all the financial scandals he ws involved in) was also evident of how Tsvangira condones corruption and nepotism but more importantly how he does not take Zimbabwe seriously and appoints incompetent and unsuitable people to key posts.
Maybe because he realises he himself is not presidential material, so anyone may assume any role below him!!! Shame on you Tsvangirai. You must recall your girlfriend back home! and offer an MDC T post.