An MDC-T memorial event scheduled for Zaka tomorrow has been postponed amid reports that party leader Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who wedded Elizabeth Macheka last Saturday, had family engagements.
Tawanda Marwizi/ Farai Gwenhure Own Correspondents
The memorial service was due to be held tomorrow in Zaka to remember three MDC-T activists who died after the party district offices were bombed in 2008 ahead of the bloody presidential election runoff.
Party sources yesterday claimed Tsvangirai and his wife Elizabeth were planning to go on their honeymoon this weekend.
But MDC-T national organising secretary Nelson Chamisa refuted reports that the cancellation was to do with the Premier’s private engagements.
“It is not true that the president (Tsvangirai) is the one who made the event to be cancelled, but we are busy concentrating on the party’s anniversary in Bulawayo in less than two weeks. I cancelled the event myself because it is in my discretion as the organising head to do that,” Chamisa said.
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Chamisa added that they could not mix the Premier’s personal life with party business.
“I talked to him (Tsvangirai) yesterday after he inquired about the event and I told him that I had cancelled it because of the coming event, not that he is going to a honeymoon. May be they (Masvingo MDC-T officials) are the ones who have organised the honeymoon for him, I don’t know,” he said.
However, some MDC-T Masvingo provincial executive members who spoke to NewsDay on condition of anonymity insisted they were informed at the last minute that the event could not proceed because of Tsvangirai’s honeymoon arrangements this weekend.
“Yes, we have cancelled the event because we were told that the party president was tied up in family issues and he was about to go on honeymoon,” the party source said.