Mnangagwa grew up in Chiweshe near Rosa Business Centre where she attained both primary and secondary education.

After completing her secretarial studies at Silveira House in Chishawasha she joined the Ministry of Manpower and Development in 1981 which was under the supervision of the late Edgar Tekere.

In 1982, she joined the then Prime Minister’s Office. It was during this period that she is reported to have worked at the Sheraton Hotel (now Rainbow Towers) as a security officer. She also worked with the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) until 1997 when she left to undertake studies in environment and tourism at the University of Zimbabwe.

Two years after leaving the country to pursue studies in hotel and tourism administration in Switzerland, she graduated in 2001. Cde Mnangagwa returned to Zimbabwe and worked in Zanu-PF’s finance department in Kwekwe. She married Cde Mnangagwa in 1984, and the two have three children – Emmerson (Junior) Sean and Collin.

Her political life is not without controversy. She is reported to have submitted her name to represent Zanu-PF in Mazowe Central where she was born, but her submission was declined by the ZANU-PF Mashonaland Central Provincial Coordinating Committee under circumstances she claims were unclear to her.

However, former columnist of The Herald Nathaniel Manheru wrote that Mrs Mnangagwa was rejected by the Mashonaland Central provincial leadership on the grounds that she married a man from the Midlands Province. Manheru also insinuated that she may have been barred from Mashonaland Central because it was Joice Mujuru’s stronghold.

The article said Mujuru considered Mrs Mnangagwa a threat since she is married to Cde Mnangagwa, who was considered a rival in the Zanu-PF presidency succession race. After winning her way back into the Central Committee in 2009, Cde Mnangagwa played a role in setting up a community bank in Chirumhanzu called the Cheese Bank.

She is also reported to have worked on a number of empowerment projects on behalf of Zanu-PF in Gokwe and Mberengwa. Cde Mnangagwa has also been instrumental in the establishment of women’s banks in the Midlands areas of Silobela, Zhombe, Kwekwe and Chirumanzu-Zibagwe.

In 2013, Cde Mnangagwa launched another women’s bank in Mvuma with the assistance of the Small and Medium Enterprises and Co-operative Development Ministry. As the Zanu-PF Deputy Secretary for Environment and Tourism then, Mrs Mnangagwa contributed to the launch of a historical tourism initiative in the city of Masvingo.

The launch saw the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe declaring the site where President-designate Emmerson Mnangagwa and Matthew Malowa blew up a Rhodesian steam locomotive in 1964 at Masvingo Railway Station, a historical site. The two were members of the famous “Crocodile Gang”. The site has been named the “Trabablas Trail”.

Mrs Mnangagwa was part of a crop of parliamentarians who include Psychology Mazivisa, Betty Kaseke, Tshinga Dube and Esau Mupfumi who won positions through by-elections. She spent a number of years behind the scenes, but her history in the party allows her to reach the same level as her counterparts, Senator Monica Mutsvagwa and former First Lady Grace Mugabe.

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