Tsvangirai gets Passport on Christmas
The Zimbabwean government delivered a passport and a letter to Morgan Tsvangirai on Christmas
Day in what looks like a major concession from the Mugabe’s regime under pressure from SADC. Tsvangirai’s Press Secretary George Sibotshiwe confirmed.
After months of withholding issuing Tsvangirai with a new passport the government delivered the travel
document to the President of the Movement for Democratic Change together with a letter from President Robert Mugabe inviting him to be sworn as Prime Minister on the first week of January.
Mugabe’s letter to Tsvangirai was hand-delivered by South African High Commissioner to Botswana
Milo Moopeloa.
The issuance of the passport followes the appearance in a court on Wednesday of Zimbabwe Peace Project Director Jestina Mukoko and activists who had been abducted by suspected state security agents.
Tsvangirai one week ago issued an ultimatum demanding the release of MDC and civic activists abducted since October, failing which he would ask his party’s national council to vote to sever negotiations with ZANU-PF.
Posted by Mellisa Dube-Koketso
on December 28, 2008. Filed under Local News,Politics.
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