Mugabe spokesman beat up wife over missing gun

By Lance Guma
23 September 2005

Serious infighting between government and Zanu PF information ministry officials has led to stunning revelations that Robert Mugabe’s spokesman, George Charamba beat up his wife in February last year, following an altercation over a missing gun. The source of the story is, surprisingly, Zanu PF’s own mouthpiece, ‘The Peoples Voice,’ edited by Charamba’s sworn enemy Lovemore Mataire.

The paper says Charamba attacked his ailing wife Rudo at their Mandara home. This was just after she had been discharged from hospital for an unnamed illness. He allegedly blamed her for the missing gun and although the case was reported at Borrowdale police station, nothing was done.

Charamba has been using the Herald to attack Mataire over what he perceives as poor journalism standards at the Zanu PF paper, while Mataire in turn has used The Peoples Voice to retaliate. He has called Charamba a ‘British agent, saboteur, double agent and liar who gushed stinking effluent’. The two have been washing each others dirty linen in public in sustained attempts to undermine the other.