Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister,Morgan Tsvangirai believed that the accident that killed his wife,Susan and injured him was an assassination attempt and told Botswana President Ian Khama so, a source has revealed.
Botswana’s President was reportedly the first African head of state to call Tsvangirai a few hours after the accident and Tsvangirai on his hospital bed told Khama that he doubted if it was ‘just an accident’,Khama immediately asked the Botswana embassy in Harare to make arrangements for Tsvangirai to be flown to Botswana.
In Botswana Tsvangirai held discussions with Khama and according to our source who requested anonymity, Tsvangirai wanted to quit the powersharing deal and contemplated going into exile as he believed his life and that of senior MDC officials was in danger but was dissuaded from doing so by Khama.
Khama advised Tsvangirai to hang on because not everyone in ZANU PF was opposed to the power sharing deal and it would be easier for him to identify his real opponents in ZANU PF by working with them everyday.
Khama also reportedly advised Tsvangirai that if he quits,violence like the one witnessed in the June runoff election would flare and the military junta would take advantage of the situation to launch a military coup and Zimbabwe’s humanitarian situation would worsen and problems would go on unresolved for years.
He also told Tsvangirai to play down the circumstances of the accident to ‘cool down’ his supporters ‘s emotions.
After the Botswana visit Tsvangirai came back to Zimbabwe and played down the circumstances surrounding the accident telling mourners that the chances of the accident being an assassination attempt were ‘one in a thousand’.
A comment from Foreign Affairs Director of Information Chris Maribe could not be obtained last night,as repeated calls and an email to his office were not answered.
The source also revealed that an investigation report on the accident will likely never be publicly released. A development a political analyst says it shows that the MDC knows more than it telling its supporters.
‘If that report simply says it was an accident then why is the MDC not making it available to the public. This shows that the MDC is shedding the truth and short charging its supporters who deserve to know.’ noted Gregory Mthembu-Salter a security studies expert at South Africa’s Institute for Security Studies.
South Africa’s ruling Party leader and now President-elect Jacob Zuma allegedly also held long discussions with Tsvangirai after the accident,details on what kind of advise he offered could not be obtained,but it is likely he encouraged him to stick to the deal.
Tsvangirai since finishing ahead in last year’s March 29 poll has formed a close and strong relationship with the leaders of Zimbabwe’s two rich neighbours South Africa and Botswana,Jacob Zuma and Ian Khama respectively. The two countries since the signing of the powersharing deal have offered economic aid to Zimbabwe.
it will soon dawn on you that ngochani and shower are not as strong and influential as you hope. first you thought Obama mukasradhi would help you but nothing happened, now you are pinning your hopes on these midgets ana shower arikutooneswa hakewo pfumvu naZille muSA make, moti angadii kune military junta.
Sometimes the truth is unpalatable. Very like the hard tack biscuits used in early sailing ships. Unfortunately they were often infected with maggots. To get rid of the maggots, they would have to tap the biscuits. this made the maggots come out.
I think this article is a very good demonstration of how to make maggots show themselves.
CIOs are very worried that the truth is coming out. Why are you rushing to say that this story is a lie? Do you know any other information? If you do then tell us. Maybe you can describe in detail the murder plan. Using words like howash and writing under different pseudonames will never silence Zimbabweans. The truth is coming and ZANU(PF) is becoming isolated with time. They are busy buying friendship hanzi hee Zambia ne Zimbabwe are twins. Do you think Banda is a fool? No one in the region killed people for voting them out of power. Ikozvino ka Mugabe kachati kwetsva kwetsva kuenda ku South Africa for inauguration kusanyara. 85Years but still fighting with people young enough to be his grandchildren. Shame
I hope people shall demonstrate mugabe’s presence at Zuma’s inauguration, he is a shame to all Africans, the truth is coming out and no sanctions will be lifted against such idiots of zanu. Imi maCID in this forum don’t try to pursuade us otherwise stick to you hero worshiping of mugabe and we will expose you one by one till we get to the baboon mugabe kushata kwakwe. You are murderers and amunyare.
Futseki. MuCID ndimai vako mboko.
You are really struggling to make it an accident. Your aim is to see blood in Zimbabwe so that your Asylum cases which are now weak can stand a chance in the UK and North America.
The assumption of ZANU(PF) maggots espeacially those who never took part in any gun fight like Joseph Chonotimba and Goerge Charamba is that they fantasize and think that spilling blood means they are victors. They live in a fool’s paradize where they fail to realize that ZANU(PF) is now so compromised that Junior soldiers will never take command to shoot their brothers and sisters. So people like ****blaster can fanatasize while in the army offices but the reality is that spilling blood this time will be JOC being shot at. Thats why ZANOIDS trembled when Ian Khama assempled troops to the border before the June run off. They were so scared stiff because no one in ZNA has bullets to last a day’s fight. You don’t know that thats why JOC is crying loudly fof lifting of sanctions so that they can re-arm.The West knows all the tricks. Zimbabwe shall be mushe minus guns. mucha**** ma senior CIO ne JOC. Hamulume
shepherd. You are correct. We write alot of lies on this site under different names as we have been told to do so by our bosses otherwise we will be punished.We have been told to try and persuade people like you to believe that zanu is still in controll but we ourselves know that they are not. We are too afraid to come out with the truth.We have no where to go as no country wants us so we must try and eradicate the MDC so that we keep our jobs without anyone knowing what we have done.It is not mugabe but the millitary bosses who controll what goes on.Mugabe is only our puppet and must do what his bosses tell him or he to will have a mysterious accident.Our bosses are well known for all the murders that they have committed and so cannot afford to lose their high positions. They too have no where to hide as they are not wanted in any other country.Mugabe is just their figure head and does not have any power.He will always say what they want him to say as he too cannot go anywhere.They need the sanctions lifted so that they can access the millions in their accounts that have been frozen by the western countries and also so that they can access western doctors for their HIV treatment.They will fight to the very end as they have nothing else to lose.
The story even exposes MDC that they can’t speak what they really know. They only speak what they have been told to say. Poor MDC, it is a headless party
tembo zanu pf is a mad party you cannot justify what you are saying, zanu has destroyed zimbabwe and the world has closed all their riches and they are crying foul. I wish these sanctions are not lifted for the zanu fools so that they can learn that their leadership style has been the cause of their demise.
we need common sense and diplomacy in order to limit the damage careless statements may bring.what purpose would it save to tell the nation zanu pf wanted tp assassinate tsvangirai then plunge the nation into violence,war and unneccessary suffering? the mdc did well keeping it to themselves as long as they know who their enemies are.one by one,they will be dealt with.
mogodii kana Tsvangirai akaziva kuti taida kumusevesa.vangani vatakavuraya zvikanyaragwa.ndezvenyu izvo naKhama wenyu.
so is tswangirai GUSENI he’s destroyed zimbabwe like you mdc dwellers anywhere the guy is grown too big for his pants kick him out before further damages. What assassination is he talking about maybe he’s the one who tried to assasinate himself in that accident or maybe he wanted to commit suicide becoz he couldn’t deliver what he promised his fans, who knows? only GOD, this tswangirai should stop preaching lies just get him out.
Brother merit. Soon it will be time for us to speak out the truth.
Guseni learn to listen, then hear not hear then listen. I never said anything about sanctions or ZANU(PF), I repeat myself. The story is exposing more MDC than smearing ZANU(PF) as the writer intended. Instead of Morgan telling Khama exactly what happen as the men who was not only on the scene but directly involved he was told by Khama what to say and went on to say it. SHAME ON MDC. Again shame!!!
Mr editor madini mambosuspenda nyanya dzemaaccident idzi…week after week accident story???….there’s plenty of news out there you can fill us with…for instance, tendai biti admitting that zimbabwe is under illegal economic sanctions and that it cannot move economically under the ruinous embargo….
I think this telling was done during or after a passionate session of ngochani sex.so its btwn life lovers.
merit,scareface,mukoma pedzi and other cdes,we have been vindicated ,al along we have bn telling peaheads lk baba,guseni,**** zanu pf,and other mdc fans that zidera ws sanctions imposed on zim nt targeted sanctions as the americans and british preacched,mdc with no brains took it hook line and sinker.I’m watching biti on ztv and I have it on tape and the fool is nw admitting that we r under sanctions.we told u so.they wil admit al the truth one by one.even the way we tuk land ,there ws no option bt wat we did.these fools do as they r told luk nw.,their leader ws told by that thing in botswana with acne.
yes nicol , they thought going through sanctions was easy like running their fake party, one by one we will watch them sinking down. ZANU managed so many years in those so called sanctions targeted to everyone including newborn babies. For them its only 90days BITI’s eyes are already poping out of his eye sockets. yah friends with the west fix the bleeding sanctions and stop talking s h ite. SO BITI WHY ARE YOU MOANING ARE YOU ALSO ON THE SANCTIONS LIST SINCE YOU PPLE YOU ARE SAYING THERE IS A LIST.
CIO IN HIDING i am a woman by the way dont call me brother
merit. We are one.
one what um not a lunatic you know
Metro has become the most discredited site, taking over from the rabid zimdaily. Spare us the bad English please.
Of course it was not an accident. Of course it was an assassination attempt. ZanyPf are the most inept people around. They can’t govern, they can’t farm and they can’t assassinate. All they are good at is land grabbing and looting. How can a country possibly continue with them at the helm?
Tsvangirai becoming a lame-duck PM
May 5, 2009
ZIMBABWE POLITICSPrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai
By Our Correspondent
HARARE – Sources in the government of national unity’s corridors of power say evidence is mounting that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has become a lame duck Premier, struggling to assert his authority in Zimbabwe’s troubled three month-old inclusive government.
They say Tsvangirai now displays signs of reluctance to tackle an increasingly intransigent President Mugabe head-on even behind closed doors. It was not possible to establish whether this was a political strategy or plain fear to confront the recalcitrant octogenarian leader.
It has emerged that it is actually deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara who is emerging as the dark horse of the coalition government, often calling an errant Mugabe to order, especially in behind closed door meetings. It is also Mutambara who is demanding finality to outstanding issues much to the annoyance of Mugabe.
Official sources say Tsvangirai hardly challenges Mugabe in Cabinet or other meetings and his approach to molly-coddle the recalcitrant President is increasingly causing despondency among his top lieutenants.
Sources say Mutambara is actually emerging as the real thorn in Mugabe’s flesh.
In the stormy April 28 cabinet meeting, it is Mutambara who charged at Mugabe after he attempted to throw out a motion by Finance Tendai Biti to discuss the controversial issue of auditing the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
Apparently Tsvangirai sat through cabinet meeting quietly as Mugabe tried to play headmaster, according to one source. It was the bombastic intervention of Mutambara that forced cabinet to put the matter on the agenda.
Mutambara is said to have confronted Mugabe, telling him that “that is your opinion; there are many opinions in this room; that is why it’s an inclusive government”.
Sources within the MDC suggest Tsvangirai may have returned to work too soon after the burial of his spouse, Susan, saying he should perhaps have taken a longer compassionate leave to enable him to cope with the devastating loss of his wife of 31 years and the subsequent death of his grandson, Sean. Sources close to the Prime Minister claim the second tragedy emotionally devastated him, perhaps, even more than the death of his wife.
“Maybe he needs more rest,” said a senior MDC official requesting anonymity. “What we are seeing now is not the real Save we know. He has changed and we are wondering whether it’s a strategy not to be confrontational.”
“Save” (pronounced Sah-vey with a soft “v”) is Tsvangirai’s totem. He is affectionately called by his totem in MDC circles.
And, it would also seem Tsvangirai has also become somewhat desperate to convince a skeptical international community that Mugabe is no longer a problem in a desperate attempt to persuade the same international community to unlock crucially needed financial assistance. Already he has made two disingenuous statements that have sparked controversy, apparently attempting to put spin to his difficult relationship with Mugabe.
“We respect each other, although we may disagree,” Tsvangirai told bemused supporters in Chinhoyi two Saturdays back. “There’s nothing Mugabe does without me approving and there is nothing I do without him approving.”
But there are a number of moves that Mugabe has made apparently without any consultation with the Prime Minister – the continuing land seizures, the continued incarceration of Tsvangirai’s former personal aide Gandhi Mudzingwa, the contemptuous refusal by Mugabe to swear-in Roy Bennett, Tsvangirai’s choice for deputy Agriculture Minister.
Mugabe has also refused to address a host of other outstanding issues such as his unilateral appointment of discredited Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono and that of politically biased Attorney General Johannes Tomana. Mugabe is also refusing to sign into law the National Security Council Bill, giving his Joint Operations Command carte blanche to continue to plot against the MDC.
The National Security Council is expected to replace the JOC, but has not met since Parliament passed the law constituting it on February 10.
Mugabe has, in fact, deliberately undermined the Prime Minister at every turn. He has shown clear contempt and disdain for him and openly treats him as a junior partner.
Tsvangirai nevertheless insists he is an equal partner in the inclusive government.
Sources in government say Mutambara, who is less diplomatic with Mugabe, despite earlier perceptions that he was a lackey of the President, has actually asserted his authority and Mugabe is increasingly getting alarmed with Mutambara’s hostile attitude.
Initially Mutambara led Mugabe to believe he was his ally.
Pedzi did u really expect Metro to be very different from Zimdaily,is it not A.sher the same guy who used to be editor of Zimdaily,atleast they are a little better than Zimdaily,but they quite similar.
ana che****ma kungopesita zvevamwe,tsvangirai is no fool of yoz he has seen the light from zanus side.even biti is on board we told u we will rehabilitate the puppts and nw its happenning,mutambara ishungu dze**** dzinoperera mukusura,he wil neva b a gud opposition than tsvangirai.he mayb our malema who makes noise while tsvangirai is still in the rehabilitation pot.
That is why we like him MT coz he is not cruel. He is soft and understanding and will make a leader who doesnt kill his people. Those people you call ‘thorn’ , aggressive etc are very dangerous when they get a chance to rule you. keep it up Save dont be aggressive, mugabe has a few or none xmases ahead. You will rule soon.
Migrant unorota zvinonakidza fani. Ramba wakarara.
mukoma pedzie
Nemiwo mukoma pedzie munofunga kuti Mugabe achiri nemakore mangani ari mupenyu? Unofunga nekumas**** chete iwe mukoma pedzie. Ndosaka ndichiti imimi maCIO ari pano, Nicol et al, ma.ka**** mwoyo mukasiya m.a.tuzvi mukati muchiti ndiwo mwoyo. Vakachenjera vari kuziva kuti Mugabe haana three yeras chaidzo achiri normal.He can’t defy nature nada, bodo ndaramba. Asi vanaChihuri, Chiwenga, Zimhondi, Bigboy Chitare maform three saka zvinoonekwa nevakafunda havazvioni. They are perenially dull.
Ikozvino vamwe vedu we are compiling manames emhondi dzese dzeZanu pf , we will hunt them down one by one sekuuraya kwavakaita hama dzedu. It might take years to hunt them down but Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold.Most of the Nazi soldiers have all been hunted down, some as far as Brazil and of late one was flushed out in America (he is 89yrs).Saka hiding behind a keypad will not exonerate you anaMukoma Pedzie , kana makauraya zvichakuwanaiwo chete. Hakuna kwekuhwanda. Munhu wese ane nguva yakewo.Ana Merit nanaNicol mah.u.r.e muri kuita basa rekuzadza maZimbabweans AIDS iko kuSA kwamuri uko.
Iwe pedzie unofunga kuti Mugabe chaiye angafamba two steps munaFirst Street ari ega? Kano mamiswa nemastreet chaiwo.
mukoma pedzie
Nemiwo mukoma pedzie munofunga kuti Mugabe achiri nemakore mangani ari mupenyu? Unofunga nekumas.h.u.r.e chete iwe mukoma pedzie. Ndosaka ndichiti imimi maCIO ari pano, Nicol et al, ma.k.a.m.a.m.a mwoyo mukasiya m.a.tuzvi mukati muchiti ndiwo mwoyo. Vakachenjera vari kuziva kuti Mugabe haana three yeras chaidzo achiri normal.He can’t defy nature nada, bodo ndaramba. Asi vanaChihuri, Chiwenga, Zimhondi, Bigboy Chitare maform three saka zvinoonekwa nevakafunda havazvioni. They are perenially dull.
Ikozvino vamwe vedu we are compiling manames emhondi dzese dzeZanu pf , we will hunt them down one by one sekuuraya kwavakaita hama dzedu. It might take years to hunt them down but Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold.Most of the Nazi soldiers have all been hunted down, some as far as Brazil and of late one was flushed out in America (he is 89yrs).Saka hiding behind a keypad will not exonerate you anaMukoma Pedzie , kana makauraya zvichakuwanaiwo chete. Hakuna kwekuhwanda. Munhu wese ane nguva yakewo.Ana Merit nanaNicol mah.u.r.e muri kuita basa rekuzadza maZimbabweans AIDS iko kuSA kwamuri uko.
Iwe pedzie unofunga kuti Mugabe chaiye angafamba two steps munaFirst Street ari ega? Kano mamiswa nemastreet chaiwo.
whoe is campaigning for mutambara that idiot, we don’t believe that fool he is one and he will remain one. Pamberi na Morgan Tswangirai.
Uku ndiko kushaya nyaya. I thot nyaya iyi yakapfuura kare. Hindava muchindinyepera ini nemukaradhi weBotswana. I told u it was not a plotted accident it’s genuine accident. Let the spirit of my wife rest in peace. Hamunyari here mese imi. Musoro bhangu mese. Do something productive
Tibvireipo anaMetro, kuisa nyaya yengochani yaane mazuva vamwe vachiisa dzaana Jestina Mukoko vadzoserwa muchizarira.