Oppah Muchinguri now Mai Mufundisi

January 24, 2015
It is now official. Zanu-PF Politburo member and Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Oppah Muchinguri is now customarily married to a Pentecostal clergyman, Bishop Anthony Kashiri, making her “Mai Mufundisi” 
MARITAL BLISS . . . Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Oppah Muchinguri and her husband Bishop Anthony Kashiri
MARITAL BLISS . . . Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Oppah Muchinguri and her husband Bishop Anthony Kashiri
The two are believed to have dated for some time, but did all they could to keep the relationship under wraps to avoid unnecessary publicity.
Muchinguri flaunted her new-found love around in public last Thursday at Mutare Polytechnic during the Provincial Co-ordinating Committee meeting at Headlands Hall where thousands of Zanu-PF supporters from Headlands Constituency had converged to petition the party leadership to expel their representative in the National Assembly, Didymus Mutasa, from the party and august House.
Muchinguri confirmed Bishop Kashiri as the apple of her eye.
“Where is he? My better half, where are you? Oh, there he is! This is my husband, and we are happily married,” said Muchinguri, to wild ululation and whistling from the crowd.
“I am now Amai Kashiri,” she added. “You continue to refer to me as Amai Muchinguri because probably you did not know that I am now married.
“I am now Amai Kashiri,” she said with a broad smile.
The couple posed briefly for a photo-shoot from journalists.
“We have all along been keeping a low-profile as we tried to avoid paparazzi. You know what they do and are capable of,” she said, referring to journalists’ nose for news.
Sources told our Manicaland Bureau that a wedding was on the cards for the Cabinet minister following the conclusion of customary proceedings between the two families recently.
-Bishop Kashiri was in the United States for years.
Muchinguri was previously married to Botswana-based trader Mr Tapiwa Rushesha and their marriage ended in the late 1990s whereupon she reverted to her family name — Muchinguri.
Last year in January Muchinguri denied long standing rumours that she dated dendera music icon Simon Chimbetu or that she was once involved in a cat fight with the First Lady Grace Mugabe, over earrings.
Muchinguri stunned participants at a meeting organised by the Women in Politics Support Unit (Wipsu) when she said “People say I dated Chimbetu, but where would I have seen him, he was not on my level?”
She also sought to clear another popular rumour telling guests “Some said Muchinguri fought with the first lady over earrings. Such stories are not true.”
The first rumour about Chimbetu was fuelled by the late musician’s song “Oppah” in which he sang “beyond those mountains, Manica Valley, there is a mushroomed African Village, there is Oppah an African girl, she is like an angel sent for me.”
It has also been claimed that Muchinguri had an affair with President Mugabe that culminated in an altercation with the First Lady at the Harare International Airport.
Grace Mugabe allegedly confronted Muchinguri over earrings bought for her by the President. The First Lady is then said to have ordered her off the plane.
According to Muchinguri the situation was not helped when she divorced her first husband, Tapiwa Rushesha.
During the acrimonious divorce and child custody proceedings, Rushesha told the courts that he had been upset that Mugabe often sent his bodyguards to pick up his wife for “meetings” in the middle of the night.
“We need to change our attitudes. Why do you believe in such stories? I have developed thick skin and you also need to develop it if you are to survive in politics,” Muchinguri said last year.
Source : http://nehandaradio.com/2015/01/24/oppah-muchinguri-finds-new-love-2/#sthash.kK7405NK.dpuf
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