Outgoing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's wife Elizabeth Macheka has allegedly rekindled a relationship with longtime boyfriend Mr Kennedy Ngirazi.
The two have over the past few months been apparently sending each other intimate messages where the PM's wife is referring to the married man as her "sweetie."
It is understood that Elizabeth and Mr Ngirazi have a young daughter who is in Grade 0 at a school in Harare.
This is despite the fact that Mr Ngirazi is married to Mrs Denise Ngirazi and the couple has four children.
Sunday Mail reports that several emails made available to them show that Mrs Tsvangirai and Mr Ngirazi rekindled their relationship at the beginning of the year.
The alleged emails start with the PM's wife sending Mr Ngirazi an email on January 21 2013 at 6:01pm saying: "Baba Tashinga — What you did on Friday reminds me exactly how you used to treat me, how you used to hurt me, how you used to break my heart. Still I would patiently wait for you, until that day I just decide to give up on us...no stress, it's just a reminder."
On January 23 2013, Mrs Tsvangirai sent another email from her Nokia Lumia 920 to Mr Ngirazi at 9:09am saying: "Why ndisingaitwewo good morning, good night. Ndakatsamwa. Asi you are still deciding? Or you haven't made up your mind. Asi mune confusion. Kasikai ku maker decision Mrehwa."
At 12:43pm on the same day, Mr Ngirazi replied the email from his Samsung mobile phone saying: "Good afternoon my love. You know very well you are always on my mind. Hapana chekumbo decider. My quietness does not mean I've forgotten about you but it's to keep you safe. You are too delicate to mess up. I love you always."
Mrs Tsvangirai then responded from her mobile phone at 3:58pm saying: "Subject: RE: mwa — I like the word delicate, wow it's mesmerising. Uri wangu sweetie."
The PM customarily married Elizabeth in May last year and the two then pushed for a wedding that was held at Raintree Lodge in Umwinsidale in Harare in September.
The two could not get legally married as both the magistrates' court and the High Court had ruled that Mr Tsvangirai was still married to Ms Lorcadia Karimatsenga.
Mr Tsvangirai had ended his relationship with Lorcadia in 2011 saying the relationship had been "irretrievably damaged" to the point where marriage had become "inconceivable."
The PM made the decision to leave Lorcadia a few days after paying lobola for her.
Before dumping Lorcadia and settling for Elizabeth, Mr Tsvangirai had aparently been with many women who include SA-based Nozipho Regina Shilubane, Aquillina Pamberi, Bulawayo businesswoman Loreta Nyathi, US-based Zimbabwean doctor Arikana Chihombori and his late wife's sister Leah Mhundwa.
Mrs Tsvangirai has apparently riled some women in the leadership of the MDC-T who claim to be aware of the relationship between their leader's wife and Mr Ngirazi but feel powerless to do anything about it.
"As women, we talk about such issues and for a while we have been wondering what to do about it. We understand Amai (Mrs Tsvangirai) has a child with this man and we don't have a problem with that because we are sure the PM is aware of this child. However, what is really worrying us now is that the two (Mrs Tsvangirai and Mr Ngirazi) are back together and this is likely to damage the image of our leader.
Court records allegedly show that in the past, Mr Ngirazi's wife had to sought a peace order at the Magistrates Court against Mrs Tsvangirai and had to file adultery charges at the High Court. The matter is still pending at the High Court.
Mrs Tsvangirai is the daughter of former Zanu-PF mayor for Chitungwiza Cde Joseph Macheka and was once married to an airforce commander, Mabasa Guma who died in a car accident along the Harare-Bulawayo road about nine years ago. The PM's wife runs a boutique in the Avenues area.
The marriage of Elizabeth to Mr Tsvangirai was met with a lot of resistance and disapproval in the MDC-T as some of the women in the party are understood to have been preferring Lorcadia Karimatsenga to be their leader's wife.
The fact that her father is a known Zanu-PF figure has not helped matters as some die-hard supporters in the MDC-T feel she is not the right wife for their leader.
- SundayMail
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