Auxillia Mnangagwa

Born on 25 March 1963 in Mazowe District in Mashonaland Central, Auxillia is the second child in a family of five. She was brought up on a farm{{cite news |last=Mahr |first=Krista |date=24 November 2017 |title=Auxillia Mnangagwa: Zimbabwe's little-known new first lady with big shoes to fill |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/24/auxillia-mnangagwa-zimbabwes-little-known-new-first-lady-big/ |work=The Telegraph |location=Johannesburg |access-date=28 November 2017 }} in Chiweshe where she attended primary and secondary school. Her parents divorced when she was in Grade 3.{{cite news|url=https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2015/09/13/a-peek-into-auxillia-mnangagwas-life/|title=A peek into Auxillia Mnangagwa's life|author=Mhlanga, Blessed|newspaper=The Standard|date=13 September 2015|access-date=28 November 2017 }} After completing a secretarial course at Silveira House, Chishawasha, in 1981, she worked for the Ministry of Manpower and Development under Edgar Tekere. She entered politics in 1982, eventually rising to the politburo. From 1992, she was assigned to the Prime Minister's office, joining the Central Intelligence Organisation in 1997. Some reports maintain that from 1992, acting as a high-level security officer at the Sheraton Hotel, she provided information to Mugabe on Emmerson Mnangagwa who was then the de facto head of the CIO. She denies these assertions.{{cite web|url=https://zimnowmedia.wordpress.com/2015/01/31/auxillia-mnangagwa-a-cio-mole-deployed-by-mugabe-to-monitor-her-husband/|title=Auxillia Mnangagwa a CIO Mole Deployed by Mugabe to Monitor Her Husband|author=Bolder, Peter|publisher=Now Daily|date=31 January 2015}}

In 1997, she began studying in the Environment and Tourism department at the University of Zimbabwe. She left for Switzerland two years later, graduating in Hotel and Tourism Administration in 2001. On her return to Zimbabwe, she joined the finance department of ZANU-PF in Kwekwe. Following an unsuccessful attempt to stand for the ZANU-PF in her native Mazowe Central, she joined the party's Central Committee in 2009. On behalf of Zanu-PF, she set up a number of women's banks in at Silobela, Zhombe, Kwekwe and Chirumanzu-Zibagwe in Zimbabwe's Midlands Province.{{cite web|url=http://www.southerneye.co.zw/2014/06/23/mnangagwas-wife-targets-prison-officers/|title=Mnangagwa's wife targets prison officers|author=Chadenga, Stephen|publisher=Southern Eye|date=23 June 2014|access-date=28 November 2017|archive-date=31 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331122602/http://www.southerneye.co.zw/2014/06/23/mnangagwas-wife-targets-prison-officers/|url-status=dead}}

Following her husband's appointment as Vice-President, she stood as the Member of Parliament for Chirumanzu–Zibagwe. After the withdrawal of the two other candidates, she went on to win the parliamentary by-election in 2015.

In 2024, the United States imposed sanctions on Auxilia, her husband Emerson, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and 11 other Zimbabwean individuals and entities for involvement in human rights abuses, corruption, and minerals smuggling.{{cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/5/us-sanctions-zimbabwe-president-emmerson-mnangagwa-over-alleged-abuses |title=US sanctions Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa over alleged abuses |access-date=3 April 2025 |work=Al Jazeera |date=5 March 2024 }}

She married Emmerson Mnangagwa following the death of his previous wife Jayne, the sister of Josiah Tongogara, at which point she became his second wife. They have three children together: Emmerson Jr., Sean, and Collins.

{{Election box begin|title=By-election 2015: Chirumanzu–ZibagweMidlands Correspondent |29 January 2015 [http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-20223-5+vie+for+Mnangagwa’s+constituency/news.aspx Five candidates vie for Chirumanzu-Zibagwe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518034806/http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-20223-5+vie+for+Mnangagwa%E2%80%99s+constituency/news.aspx |date=18 May 2015 }} New Zimbabwe|Retrieved 24 February 2016"{{cite news |last=Mlevu |first=Simiso |title=BREAKING NEWS: Zanu-PF retains Chirumanzu-Zibagwe Parly seat |date=28 March 2015 |url=http://www.herald.co.zw/breaking-news-auxillia-mnangagwa-wins-chirumanzu-zibagwe-by-elections/ |work=The Herald |access-date=28 November 2017 }}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|party=ZANU–PF|candidate=Auxillia Mnangagwa|votes=16,092|percentage=94.8%|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=National Constitutional Assembly|candidate=Munashe Mutodza|votes=79|percentage=0.5%|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Transform Zimbabwe|candidate=Abigail Rumbidzai Musambasa|votes=456|percentage=2.7%|change=}}

{{Election box candidate||party=Good People’s Movement|candidate=Gadzamoyo Dehwa|votes=86|percentage=0.5%|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent (politician)|candidate=Chawaona Wilbroad Kanoti|votes=257|percentage=1.5%|change=}}

{{Election box majority|votes=15214|percentage=89.6%|change=}}

{{Election box turnout|votes=16970|percentage=86.7%|change=}}

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