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Tsvangirai on path to recovery

Politics
MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai says he is now on the path to recovery following an operation in South Africa last week.

MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai says he is now on the path to recovery following an operation in South Africa last week.

BY STAFF REPORTER

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In a statement to mark Africa Day yesterday, Tsvangirai said he will be back in the country soon.

“To friends and foe alike, I want to assure you that I am recovering. I assure you that I must not be the cause of any national uncertainty,” he said.

“I will be joining you soon to continue with the struggle for freedom, peace, democracy and national prosperity.”

Tsvangirai said he was more worried about the country and its economy that seemed to be in a far much worse state than his health.

“It is the country that we all love that needs urgent healing. It is our country that must be the biggest worry for all of us, not only for our personal sake, but for the sake of the legacy we must leave behind for future generations,” he said.

Tsvangirai expressed his heartfelt thanks for the support people continued to give him in his “temporary period of indisposition”.

“I am equally aware, however, of the morbid wishes of some of my fellow countrymen. But I want to assure them that Morgan Tsvangirai will soon be back to be the usual pain to those at the helm of mis-governance; those who oppress the people and who are turning a blind eye to all this sickening poverty around us. I remain fully aware of and concerned with what we are all going through collectively as a people and as a country,” he said

“I am told that they have closed the country down today (yesterday). All the suffering and struggling vendors have been asked to close shop and join a march to prop up the ego of (President) Robert Mugabe. It is lost on them that it is the country – and not the people – that must be on a brave march to stability and progress.”