The South African woman who made an abortive attempt to stop Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s wedding has spoken for the first time, saying she wishes the MDC-T leader well, but is bitter he dumped her through a cellphone text message.
Report by Staff Reporter In an interview with a South African television station — eNews Channel Africa (NCA) — Nosipho Shilubane said Tsvangirai should have had the decency to sit her down rather than end the relationship via the text message.
“I deserved for him to sit down with me and say Nosi this is what is happening,” she said.
“That decency, I think he owed it to me. He is supposed to be an example to other people, young kids. ”
“At an age of 60, you dump women with SMSes then what do the young ones do?”
Shilubane said she was still bitter at what she described as being used and abused by the Prime Minister, but she insisted that she wished Tsvangirai well even though he had married another woman.
“I received a message from an unknown number that said the relationship was terminated because of distance,” she claimed.
The South African woman said she tried calling the number, but Tsvangirai was no longer responding to her calls, prompting her to decide on the court action.
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Tsvangirai admitted in court that Shilubane was once his girlfriend.
Shilubane claimed that she first met Tsvangirai in September 2009 and they had a whirlwindromantic affair, which took them to Seychelles, Singapore and Botswana.
She also claimed that during this time, the MDC-T leader promised to marry her, but had not kept his word.
Shilubane emerged at the 11th hour hoping to stop Tsvangirai from wedding Elizabeth Macheka, claiming the Premier had also promised to marry her.
However, her appeal was dismissed, but Tsvangirai’s marriage licence was revoked after the courts ruled that he was customarily married to Locardia Karimatsenga.
The MDC-T leader, however, proceeded to have a customary law union with Macheka 10 days ago.
Tsvangirai’s aides insist that the court actions by Karimatsenga and Shilubane bore the hallmarks of State security agents that want to besmirch the Premier’s character ahead of elections.
It is claimed that two operations are in place, and Tsvangirai’s political foes, particularly Zanu PF, would stop at nothing to sully the MDC-T leader’s image.
