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By Jonisayi Maromo 
1 hour ago
Pretoria – Paramedics brought Marry Mubaiwa, the estranged wife of Zimbabwe’s Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, to appear before Harare Magistrate Ngoni Nduna after the same magistrate issued an arrest warrant.
The state newspaper The Herald reported that Mubaiwa was taken to court in an ambulance, carried into the building on a stretcher, and then pushed into the courtroom in a wheelchair while receiving an intravenous injection, after an arrest warrant was issued. against her for failing to attend a pretrial detention hearing on attempted murder and foreign exchange outsourcing charges.
The publication reported that Nduna issued an arrest warrant during a mid-morning hearing on the state’s request, although Mubaiwa’s lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, said she could not be present in court for health reasons.
Mubaiwa is accused of attempting to kill Chiwenga when he was admitted to a hospital in South Africa and of outsourcing foreign exchange from Zimbabwe.
The allegations in court are that in June 2019, when Chiwenga was flown to South Africa for treatment last year, his wife first tried to dissuade him from going to the hospital. Mubaiwa allegedly suggested that he stay at the Sheraton Pretoria hotel.
Then at the hospital, Mubaiwa allegedly asked her husband’s security personnel to leave the room before allegedly disconnecting her IV lines. She then allegedly forced him out of bed and tried to get him out of the hospital before security officers detained her.
It is alleged that after Mubaiwa removed her IV lines, Chiwenga bled profusely. A few days later, Chiwenga was flown to China, where he reportedly made a full recovery.
On Monday, Mubaiwa’s arrest warrant was canceled after he appeared in court with the help of two paramedics.
In January, Mubaiwa was granted a bond of ZIM 50,000 (R2,000) pending trial on charges of fraud, money laundering and foreign currency outsourcing.
The Harare High Court ordered Mubaiwa to surrender title to a 3,642-square-meter property located in the Highlands registered in the name of his father, Keni Mubaiwa’s KM Auctions Company, and to surrender his diplomatic passport to the court clerk as part of your bail. conditions, The Herald reported.
African News Agency (ANA)
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