Tsvangirai will not allow his father in law to be prosecuted for killing a man
Published: 2012 April 23 19:35:26 (13020 Views)
FEARS have mounted in the MDC-T that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has entrapped himself by getting engaged to a daughter of a Zanu-PF central committee member who was fingered in violence in which one person died.
Their concerns were raised yesterday, a day after the PM engaged Elizabeth Macheka, daughter of senior Zanu PF official and former Mayor of Chitungwiza, Joseph Macheka, the Standard reported.
Macheka was accused of shooting to death a man and wounding two others during the January 1998 food riots.
The Attorney General refused to prosecute, claiming that he was acting in self-defence, a position criticised by human rights activists, who felt the office succumbed to political pressure.
Some officials from his party said Tsvangira's decision to marry the daughter of a senior Zanu PF official who has in the past been accused of political violence and murder, has compromised his position.
Tsvangirai has repeatedly promised that if he wins elections, an MDC-T government would bring to justice perpetrators of violence, who have remained scot-free because of the current selective application of the law by the Zanu-PF dominated government.
Tsvangirai engaged businesswoman and fiancee of one year, Elizabeth, five months after ending a controversial and brief marriage to another businesswoman with Zanu PF links, Locadia Karimatsenga Tembo.
Locadia is a sister to Beatrice Nyamupinga, a Zanu-PF MP and relative of the Mujuru family. Her marriage to the PM raised fears within the MDC-T that the party had been infiltrated.
State Security agents were also said to be running the show behind the scenes to damage Tsvangirai's reputation ahead of elections this year or in 2013.
Tsvangirai's new lover is the former wife of the late Air Force of Zimbabwe wing commander, Mabasa Simba Guma, who died in a car accident along the Harare-Bulawayo road in 2002.
An MDC-T National Executive Committee member said the party had many eligible single women, who Tsvangirai could have married to avoid getting entangled in Zanu PF politics and machinations.
The MDC-T officials, analysts and some members of the public said it would be difficult for him to act against his father-in-law and his political associates in the event that he wins the next elections.
- standard
Their concerns were raised yesterday, a day after the PM engaged Elizabeth Macheka, daughter of senior Zanu PF official and former Mayor of Chitungwiza, Joseph Macheka, the Standard reported.
Macheka was accused of shooting to death a man and wounding two others during the January 1998 food riots.
The Attorney General refused to prosecute, claiming that he was acting in self-defence, a position criticised by human rights activists, who felt the office succumbed to political pressure.
Some officials from his party said Tsvangira's decision to marry the daughter of a senior Zanu PF official who has in the past been accused of political violence and murder, has compromised his position.
Tsvangirai has repeatedly promised that if he wins elections, an MDC-T government would bring to justice perpetrators of violence, who have remained scot-free because of the current selective application of the law by the Zanu-PF dominated government.
Tsvangirai engaged businesswoman and fiancee of one year, Elizabeth, five months after ending a controversial and brief marriage to another businesswoman with Zanu PF links, Locadia Karimatsenga Tembo.
Locadia is a sister to Beatrice Nyamupinga, a Zanu-PF MP and relative of the Mujuru family. Her marriage to the PM raised fears within the MDC-T that the party had been infiltrated.
State Security agents were also said to be running the show behind the scenes to damage Tsvangirai's reputation ahead of elections this year or in 2013.
Tsvangirai's new lover is the former wife of the late Air Force of Zimbabwe wing commander, Mabasa Simba Guma, who died in a car accident along the Harare-Bulawayo road in 2002.
An MDC-T National Executive Committee member said the party had many eligible single women, who Tsvangirai could have married to avoid getting entangled in Zanu PF politics and machinations.
The MDC-T officials, analysts and some members of the public said it would be difficult for him to act against his father-in-law and his political associates in the event that he wins the next elections.
- standard
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