1. In 2016, when Morgan Tsvangirai appointed 2 Vice Presidents they placed a tortoise on a lamppost to challenge him. That metaphorical tortoise was Patson Murimoga. His case was thrown out by the High Court on a technicality & they lay low. They were fighting him while with him.
2. Afterwards, an aggrieved Thokozani Khupe sulked and stopped attending meetings and events. She was unhappy with Tsvangirai’s decision, but had no guts to challenge him openly while he lived. The relationship was frosty even as Tsvangirai was on his deathbed.
3. Even in death, when he was no longer able to defend himself, they still went after Tsvangirai. They put another tortoise on a lamppost, this time it was one Elias Mashavira to challenge Tsvangirai’s 2016 decision and do what the first tortoise had failed to do.
4. Their objective achieved, trashing what Tsvangirai had done, when was dead and unable to explain or defend himself, they celebrated. And yet, incredibly after assaulting & embarrassing a dead man’s legacy in court they still pretend to be carrying his legacy forward.
5. And when Mwonzora defeated Khupe in December 2020, what did he do? He appointed not 1 but 2 Vice Presidents, Khupe & Mudzuri - exactly the same thing they said Tsvangirai had done wrong; the same thing they sponsored litigants to fight Tsvangirai before and after his death!
6. These are the facts, not opinions. Small men can cast large shadows, even when standing on the shoulders of political toddlers. But shadows are deceptive. Morgan would never have appeased ZANU PF, let alone kept silent in the face of human rights violations & incompetence.
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