Harare, Zimbabwe(News of the South)-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has expressed his respect for the late Morgan Tsvangirai extolling him as a strong trade unionist and opposition leader.
In his statement paying tribute to the former MDC-T leader who succumbed to cancer in a South African hospital on Wednesday, Mnangagwa said Tsvangirai had been a national figure who had stood up for democratic values.
“I wish to express deepest condolences to the Tsvangirai family on the sad passing away yesterday evening of Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, the former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, and the leader of the opposition MDC-T”
“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 (GNU).
“He remained a national figure who obdurately insisted on free, fair, credible and non-violent elections.
“This we owe him as political leaders of all contesting parties in our country which deserves unfettered peace an stability,” he said.
President Mnangagwa has revealed that he is set to meet various political party leaders to decide how the nation should mourn Tsvangirai.
“As part of building political consensus in the country ahead of the harmonized elections I shall soon be inviting leaders of all political parties for a day long consultative meeting,” he said.
Various quarters have already begun calling for the veteran politician to be buried at the Heroes Acre with an online petition, to be submitted to Mnangagwa, having begun circulating.
Tsvangirai disclosed his affliction from cancer in 2015 and had been going to South Africa for specialist treatment for some time prior to his demise.
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