HARARE –David Mnangagwa, the deputy finance minister, lost his driver unexpectedly in his hotel room on Sunday, only hours after the conclusion of the Zanu PF annual conference in Bulawayo.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son has just suffered a tragedy when his police-guarded Harare home was broken into twice and burned down by unidentified men in June of this year.
Early on Sunday, October 27, police were called to the Greys Inn hotel, where they discovered Ishmael Maburisa dead.
According to hotel sources, they thought he may have died from diabetic shock.
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Zimlive reports that, before his death, Maburisa had appeared at the hotel’s reception shouting “get me food please” several times. It is thought he was having an episode of hypoglycemia or low blood glucose levels which can be reversed by eating or drinking carbohydrates.
“They gave him porridge, the only food that was there. He went back to his room but after a short period he started twitching and convulsing as though he was having an epileptic episode and he unfortunately died,” the source said.
Police attended the scene and found diabetes medication in his room.
An internal police memo of the incident, seen by ZimLive, identified Maburisa as David Mnangagwa’s driver.
It is not clear if the deputy minister was still in Bulawayo when Maburisa died, or had flown back to Harare at the end of the Zanu PF conference on Saturday.
Police declined to comment.
Unknown individuals broke into the Borrowdale home of the president’s son on June 23 and again on June 25. In the second incident, three bullets were left outside his bedroom door and three more outside the house.
Then, on June 28, the house caught fire under unclear circumstances.
