In the following video, President Mnangagwa is heard speaking about his release from prison and going home to Zambia thereafter as he was appreciating the gesture by the Victoria Falls Council to according him freedom of the city after the commissioning of the newly commissioned city Victoria Falls.
President Mnangagwa said he was released from Khami Prison and ordered to go back home to Zambia where his parents were and he used the Victoria Falls bridge before he thanked the council for according him freedom of the city.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa speaking in a different language – which is not Shona or Ndebele, the two main indigenous mediums of communication – during his Victoria Falls freedom of the city event.
Mnangagwa grew up in Zambia and speaks Zambian languages as well. pic.twitter.com/sghKaZazWI— TheNewsHawks (@NewsHawksLive) December 10, 2020
Tonga and Nambya are some of the languages spoken in Matebeleland North.