HARARE – Zanu PF’s Mberengwa South MP Alum Mpofu died suddenly on Sunday evening.
Mpofu collapsed at his home in Masvingo and was pronounced dead after being rushed to a local hospital, the ZBC reported.
The cause of death has been identified as suspected kidney failure.
Mpofu made an inglorious exit from his brief stint as ZBC CEO in 2002 after he was allegedly caught in a “compromising position with a man” – outing him as gay.
Media reports at the time said Mpofu was chained to a fire hydrant by a security guard at a night club after being found in in a homosexual act with a man in a corridor, but was released after the owner Pearson Mbalekwa – who was a Zanu PF MP at the time – was called to intervene.
Mpofu, who had joined the ZBC from the South African Broadcasting Corporation where he headed their strategic research unit, disappeared from the public eye only to re-emerge as a Zanu PF MP candidate in 2018.
Early this month, he moved a motion in parliament for the introduction of some form of a “Patriot Act” to punish citizens who “make it their duty to spend hours and hours crafting counter-narratives that are negative with all intent and purpose intended to harm the country’s positive good reputation.”
The Zimbabwe government is yet to make its official response to the motion, which had the support of Zanu PF MPs but was condemned by the opposition.
