HARARE- Divisions have resurfaced within Zanu PF as Team Lacoste which backs incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa and the military backed Cosleg faction have gone on overdrive mode to expose each other in recent weeks.
Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo and deputy minister of information Energy Mutodi got into a verbal altercation after the latter made a diplomatic error by publicly criticising Tanzanian President John Magufuli‘s response to the coronavirus outbreak in the east African nation.
This is the most recent instance of a factional conflict that has dogged the Zimbabwe Revolutionary Party.

Mutodi accused the popular coup announcer Moyo who rose to prominence in November 2017 of behaving like a superior minister or prime minister.
The incident took place hours after Moyo publicly censured him on national television over his comments criticising Tanzania’s response to the deadly coronavirus.
Mutodi tweeted last week that:
“His Excellency John Pombe Magufuli’s Tanzania now has 630 COVID-19 cases with prayers, but without a lockdown, while His Excellency President ED Mnangagwa’s Zimbabwe only got 31 cases with a lockdown and masks. An insight into how managers can be game-changers.”
SB Moyo reacted to the undiplomatic language by quickly distancing the government from Mutodi’s remarks, which he said were personal and disparaging.
On Tuesday, Mutodi, who rose to fame after his picture with Mnangagwa, then Vice-President, at his Zvishavane home on the 2017 New Year’s eve holding a cup inscribed I am the boss circulated on social media, warned Moyo to stop masquerading as his prime minister.
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