On behalf of the ruling ZANU-PF party, Government, our Nation, and that of my family, I wish to express deepest condolences to the Tsvangir...
On behalf of the ruling ZANU-PF party, Government, our
Nation, and that of my family, I wish to express deepest condolences to the
Tsvangirai Family on the sad passing yesterday evening of Morgan Richard
Tsvangirai, the former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, and leader of the opposition
MDC-T party. A strong trade-unionist and opposition leader, the late Tsvangirai
will be remembered especially for his readiness to stretch and reach out across
the political divide for a Government of National Unity after the polarizing
2008 elections.
Both in and after the Government of National Unity, he
remained a national figure who obdurately insisted on free, fair, credible and
non-violent elections as a way of strengthening our democracy and our overall
re-engagement with the rest of the world. Whatever other controversial
decisions he and his MDC-T party may have made in the past, we all remember him
for his insistence on free, fair and peaceful elections which we must validate
in the forth-coming 2018 Harmonised Elections in tribute to him and to our
democracy.
This we owe him as political leaders of all contesting
parties in our country which deserves unfettered peace and stability. As part of building political consensus in
the country ahead of the Harmonised Elections, I shall soon be inviting leaders
of all political parties for a day-long consultative meeting.
Indeed the ethic of overarching collaboration above fair
and peaceful political contestation must be cultivated and entrenched into our
national politics for all times.
As we join the Tsvangirai Family in mourning their dear
departed, we pray that the whole Family remains united to give the deceased a
dignified send-off. Consultations are underway in Government and with the
Family to determine what else Government needs to do to accord the late
departed befitting honour.
May his soul rest in eternal peace.
E.D. Mnangagwa
President
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