At one of Robert Mugabe's farms, workers said they are pained by the death of their boss and worried about their future—and some say they are hoping his wife will be their savior.
The rolling, rich land of Mazowe, about 40 kilometers north of the capital, Harare, used to be owned exclusively by white farmers. But when Mugabe implemented his land seizures, he and his wife took several of the choice farms in this area."We never met him but he took good care of us," said Monica Tamanikwa, walking with her three year-old daughter. She said workers on Mugabe's farms were always paid on time and at times in cash, unlike workers at other properties.
Many are pinning their hopes on Mugabe's wife, Grace,"to run the farm and have a good heart like the old man," said Eremiah Muyepa, a farmworker. A former secretary in Mugabe's office, she rose to prominence after news broke that she had a child with Mugabe while his first wife, Sally, was ailing. Mugabe subsequently said his first wife, who died from kidney failure in 1992, knew and approved of his liaison with Grace since she could provide the president with children. Grace, more than 40 years younger than Mugabe, had three children with the president.
"I am a wife of the president. Who is Mnangagwa on this earth? Who is he? ... What do I get from him?" she barked at a political rally, denying reports that she had poisoned Mnangagwa with ice cream from her dairy weeks before Mnangagwa was fired as vice president and fled the country. "In politics, unlike in religion, the dead do not protect the living," said Alexander Rusero, a Harare-based political analyst.
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