PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe was last night expected to join other top government officials in Alexandra Park, Harare, to console his spokesman, George Charamba, whose wife, Idaishe Olivia Charamba, succumbed to liver complications at a private city hospital on Sunday.

BY BLESSED MHLANGA

Presidential spokesperson George Charamba (left),whose wife died yesterday, is consoled by Foreign Affairs minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi at his home in Alexandra Park, Harare

Charamba doubles as permanent secretary for the Media, Information and Broadcasting Services ministry.

At the time of going to print, several government officials, among them Vice-Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko, media and opposition officials, were gathered at the Charamba homestead, where Olivia’s body lay in state ahead of her burial in Raffingora today.

Mourners are gathered at Number 2 Helsdon Road, Alexandra Park, in the capital.