Mugabe rails against promiscuous ministers

HARARE

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has castigated his ministers for having extra-marital affairs.

President Mugabe, who was speaking at the wedding of his niece, said he knew some of his ministers’ girlfriends by names.

This was the second time the octogenarian leader had spoken out against senior government officials having extra-marital affairs this year.

In September, he told an AIDS conference that he knew of government officials living with the disease and who had multiple sexual partners.

“Cases of promiscuity are now rampant even in Zanu PF. Sometimes you wonder why someone opts to drive by himself but there are personal drivers we have provided them. Why?

“They could be going for such evil acts of promiscuity. This is not good at all,” said Mugabe.

The veteran ruler had an extra-marital affair himself that resulted in the birth of a daughter with his current wife Grace.

He had the affair while still married to his first wife, Sally who died of a kidney ailment in 1992.

Zimbabwe once had one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world but this has declined to 13 percent.