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Tsvangirai lands self in hot soup

March 02, 2015
The Head of Zimbabwe’s parliamentary delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and Co-President of the ACP-EU JPA Standing Committee on Political Affairs and Human Development, Cde Makhosini Hlongwani has blasted calls by MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai for President Robert Mugabe to step down.
 

Full statement:
The article in the Daily News Thursday in which Mr Morgan Tsvangirai of one faction of the MDC is calling on the President, Cde Robert Mugabe to step down, on some slanderous allegations of legitimacy, a stagnated economy and apparently age, makes for some sad and disturbing reading.
  1. The call by Mr Morgan Tsvangirai for President Mugabe to step down is itself illegitimate and illegal, coming as it does from a party and individual that failed to get legitimacy through a legitimate popular suffrage that was endorsed by all progressive African and other Southern states, including the ACP, and the Non Aligned Movement countries, that are truly independent on July 2013. The call, which is nothing but a self fulfilling exercise in futility, and a relevance seeking stunt, does not represent any constituency, since the MDC only managed to garner a less than a third of the national vote in a legitimate electoral process
  2. Mr Tsvangirai must appreciate as I believe he does, the fact that for ZANU PF in general, and for President Robert Mugabe in particular, to get more than two thirds majority, at his(TSVANGIRAI) and his party’s expense in the last election, is a resounding legitimation for President Mugabe, which needs no rocket science to come to terms with.
  3. As for the President’s age, a perennially losing political project in the stock of the MDC, which received and has continued to receive, a thorough drubbing at the hands of the President and ZANU PF, having agreed in the first place to participate in the contest, should not be crying foul post facto after losing the election, and worse still two years after that election. The fact remains that the so called old President, is very popular in Zimbabwe to the extent of delivering a thumping more than two thirds majority to the MDC, and Lo and behold, even SADC has appreciated the fact and so has the African Union.
  4. As for the economy, it will be interesting to interrogate the record of the MDC itself in areas with the most economic activity in Zimbabwe, including Bulawayo, Gweru, Harare, Masvingo and Mutare among others where the MDC has held fort since 2000. For the record Tsvangirai’s party has presided over a dilapidating infrastructure in these cities, denying residents a fundamental basic human right of access to water for years in Harare’s suburbs and other cities, and turning these otherwise beautiful cites into dangerous places where driving is now a nightmare. Their record in these cities speaks for itself. Never mind what would happen if they were running the country.
  5. The call for the President to step down should therefore be dismissed with the contempt it deserves.ZTV

Tsvangirai has a small Pe**s; Wife Speaks

February 22, 2015

MORGAN Tsvangirai’s wife, Elizabeth, has demanded to be “set free” from her marriage to the MDC-T leader after accusing him of cheating on her with two women.In sensational audio tapes obtained by The Herald, Elizabeth, nee Macheka, also accuses the former Prime Minister of suffering from erectile dysfunction which has prevented them from being intimate since their marriage in 2012.
Macheka, close sources say, had accepted the problem quietly but is livid that Tsvangirai is cheating on her with two other women -Leah Mhundwa, and a Bulawayo woman only named as Nobuhle.
Mhundwa is the young sister to Tsvangirai’s late wife, Susan, who died in a car accident in March 2009.
So volatile is the relationship between Tsvangirai and Macheka that at times they exchange blows.
Tsvangirai blames Macheka for the bedroom woes. He has told her that he does not experience the same problem when he sleeps with other women.
The tapes reveal that on one occasion, Tsvangirai told Macheka that he did not experience erectile dysfunction after romping with Nobuhle, sparking a huge row.
Nobuhle is said to have been in Harare recently and spent three days with Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai and Macheka have not been staying together for months.
Tsvangirai briefly stayed with Macheka at their home in Borrowdale but was chucked out after his wife discovered he was cheating on her with Nobuhle and other women. The MDC-T leader is now staying at the Highlands Government house bought and upgraded for him at a cost of $3 million during his stint as Prime Minister, which ended in July 2013.
Macheka rejects Tsvangirai’s claims she is the cause of his sexual failings, and feels betrayed by the MDC-T leader who is “ungrateful” that she has stuck with him even when there is no fire in their bedroom.

Macheka, in meetings with family members, told how Nobuhle and other women call Tsvangirai in the middle of the night while she is sleeping beside him. The rows sparked by the phone calls usually degenerate into fist-fights.
After reports of a split emerged last year, Tsvangirai invited a newspaper to their Highlands home and disputed a report by The Herald that they were on separation.
At one time, Tsvangirai sent Macheka back to her parents as he believed it was her who brought him the misfortune.
He has also gone as far as Nigeria where he sought spiritual healing from Prophet TB Joshua without success.
Close relatives have held marathon meetings to resolve the impasse between Tsvangirai and Macheka.
In one meeting, held in line with Shona culture, Tsvangirai and Macheka met with his nephew during which she poured her heart out about their problems.
“Last week on Thursday the Machekas summoned Tsvangirai and his relatives to a meeting after Elizabeth told her parents that she could not continue living alone. She also highlighted that she has never been intimate with Tsvangirai since their marriage and wants to move on with her life,” a source said.
Macheka wanted Tsvangirai “to set her free”.
“She told relatives that if Tsvangirai believes that she was the source of his bedroom problems, then he must set her free,” the source said.
Yesterday, Tsvangirai and his wife claimed all was well with them.
“We’re staying together. We’re happy. We’ve no problems at all,” claimed Macheka.
Tsvangirai, through his spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka, said: “We can understand the fixation that The Herald has with the brand and person of Morgan Tsvangirai. The truth of the matter is that there is bliss in their marriage. Mr and Mrs Tsvangirai are at No. 45 Kew Drive, Highlands.
“We understand the incessant pursuit and concoction of stories around the life and marriage of Morgan Tsvangirai for political reasons.”
Earlier, Tamborinyoka had tried to persuade this reporter to reveal the source of the story and the evidence.
Tsvangirai customarily married Macheka in 2012, but the civil union was stopped after a court challenge from his ex-lover from South Africa, one Nozipho Shilubane.Herald

Tsvangirai Speaks on Mugabes Fall

February 08, 2015
HARARE – Former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said he feels for President Robert Mugabe and wishes him well following the latter’s tripping at the airport on Wednesday.
Tsvangirai, the opposition leader who has become President Mugabe’s political arch-foe since he emerged onto the scene at the turn of the century, told journalists in a brief interview that he felt for the president.
“I feel for him. It was an unfortunate incident and I hope he receives the care that he deserves,” said Tsvangirai.
With his MDC-T party spokesperson Obert Gutu having told news agencies that the president’s “tripping” should be enough reason to retire, Tsvangirai seemed concerned and sought to project a humane tone.
On the other hand, another faction of the opposition, MDC Renewal Team expressed anger at the harassment of journalists in the aftermath of the incident.
“While we are not celebrating the unfortunate incident that saw the president falling, we condemn in the strongest terms the harassment of journalists who were interrogated and ordered to delete pictures from their cameras.
President Mugabe missed a step and tumbled as he walked to his official car moments after addressing supporters at the Harare International Airport on his return from a working visit to the African Union headquarters in Ethiopia.
He was last week appointed AU chairperson and declared he was going to lead the continental body on a new trajectory towards development.
Meanwhile, President Mugabe reported for duty at his Munhumutapa offices on Thursday to chair a Cabinet meeting despite Wednesday’s “carpet mishap”.
In a statement, the presidential spokesperson George Charamba said the president arrived at his offices walking unaided and told him that he was fine, dismissing the incident as a mere slip.
“The president’s ability to report for work without any difficulties is in direct contrast with the misrepresentation in private and Western-sponsored media who had a field day in trying to portray the trip as a huge fall which they also tried to associate with his age when in actual fact it was a mere trip that was caused by a poorly laid out carpet,” Charamba said.
According to Charamba, the president reportedly dismissed the incident as “just a fall” and did not seem perturbed.
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