The cable said Jocelyn Chiwenga called the US envoy on June 18, 2009 and insulted and threatened him. On other occasions, she has spoken with embassy staff and criticized the US with profanity and abusive language, the cable said.
The embassy lodged a complaint with Zimbabwes Ministry of Foreign Affairs over the threat to McGee. Mrs Chiwenga is no stranger to controversy. In 2002, she threatened to kill a white commercial farmer, reminding him that she had not “tasted white blood for 20 years”.
A year later, she assaulted Gugulethu Moyo, a lawyer for the Daily News. Moyo said she had twisted her arm, slapped her on the face all the time shouting: “So what if you are a lawyer? You want to encourage anarchy in this country. You want to represent our enemies.” The ZDF chiefs wife also caused a stir at Makro wholesale in Harare in 2007 after she slapped photographer Tsvangirai Mukwazhi, who was accompanying MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai during a tour of the South African-owned shop.
Seeing the mainly empty shelves at the store, Tsvangirai was reported to have criticised President Robert Mugabe’s controversial price freeze earlier that year. Mugabe had ordered shops, businesses, hotels and restaurants to slash their prices by at least 50 percent, leading to widespread shortages.
Chiwenga was enraged to see the MDC-T leader now Zimbabwes Prime Minister accompanied by his bodyguards and journalists in the store, and immediately ordered guards to close the shop. The MDC-T leader escaped but Mukwazi was trapped within the supermarket and attacked by Chiwenga who was shopping at the time.
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