By Valentine Amanze, Online Editor
Zimbabwe’s Foreign Minister, Sibusiso Moyo, is dead. He died after contracting coronavirus (COVID-19).
The presidential spokesman, George Charamba, who disclosed on Wednesday, pointed out that Moyo, a former army general, announced the military coup that led to the removal of the late long-serving leader, Robert Mugabe, in November 2017.
Charamba said that Moyo died at a local hospital early on Wednesday.
“The nation will be kept apprised of further developments regarding this untimely demise of the late minister, himself a decorated soldier and freedom fighter,” Charamba said.
Reuters reported that Moyo was one of several generals who, after helping plot the coup, were rewarded with senior positions in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s cabinet and the ruling ZANU-PF party.
Another cabinet minister, retired general and agriculture minister Perrance Shiri, died of the virus last July.
Zimbabwe has suffered a surge in COVID-19 infections, with more than half of the 28,675 total cases and 825 deaths being recorded since New Year’s Day.
