The Africa Report
Zimbabwe’s second Vice President Kembo Mohadi was caught in a kompromat trap. Recordings of phone calls full of lurid sexual banter, thanks to intercepts that were almost certainly the work of a state intelligence agency, were faithfully reproduced on the Zimlive online news site in a series of salacious stories over the last.
Episodes of the cache of intercepted ‘phone calls played out over the last two weeks of February, creating a picture of a top politician abusing his office to secure sexual favours from vulnerable young women, most of them working in his office.
Mohadi held the line and then on 1 March resigned – a unicorn-style rarity in the ZANU-PF government. He said he was stepping down, “… not out of cowardice but as a sign of demonstrating great respect to the office of the President.”