{"id":9808,"date":"2019-06-08T15:37:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T15:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=9808"},"modified":"2019-06-08T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T15:37:09","slug":"ncube-eyes-lupane-east-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ncube-eyes-lupane-east-seat","title":{"rendered":"Ncube eyes Lupane East seat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Zanu PF Matabeleland North provincial co-ordinating committee is meeting in Lupane to discuss prospective candidate for Lupane East constituency, amid reports that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is interested in the seat.<\/p>\n<p>The seat fell vacant after the incumbent legislator, Sithembile Gumbo (Zanu PF), died recently.<\/p>\n<p>Zanu PF Matabeleland North chairman and Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo confirmed today\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, it is true we are holding a meeting tomorrow (today), starting at 11am to discuss the candidature for the Lupane East constituency,\u201d Moyo said.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Ncube is tipped to be one of the candidates vying for the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>But Moyo professed ignorance about Ncube\u2019s possible candidature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not know anything about that. He has not yet told me, and I have not asked him about that. I am just hearing this from you, newspapers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ncube, who was appointed Finance minister by President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a technocrat, could not be reached for comment yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Ncube has not been directly linked to any political party in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Zanu PF Matabeleland North provincial co-ordinating committee is meeting in Lupane to discuss prospective candidate for Lupane East constituency, amid reports that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is interested in the seat. The seat fell vacant after the incumbent legislator, Sithembile Gumbo (Zanu PF), died recently. Zanu PF Matabeleland North chairman and Provincial Affairs minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,12],"tags":[83,31,380,150],"class_list":["post-9808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-economy","tag-mnangagwa","tag-moyo","tag-ncube"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ncube eyes Lupane East seat? - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ncube-eyes-lupane-east-seat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ncube eyes Lupane East seat?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE Zanu PF Matabeleland North provincial co-ordinating committee is meeting in Lupane to discuss prospective candidate for Lupane East constituency, amid reports that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is interested in the seat. 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