PM Tsvangirai refuses to attend Mugabe birthday

President Mugabe invited Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, but Press Secretary James Mariradi said the majority party leader turned it down. Tsvangirai said it is a political party function and as the prime minister, he is not obligated to attend, the spokesman said.

The spokesman would not acknowledge whether Tsvangirai had initially agreed to attend, but it was widely reported in Zimbabwean media that he had agreed to do so.

Friday, Tsvangirai visited Harare Hospital, one of the country’s biggest, and said its intensive care unit will need $30,000 in order to start operating again after a funding shortage.

Posted by Philip Mangena on February 28, 2009. Filed under Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.