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MDC T attack on MDC T vice president Thokozani Khupe was was ‘tribalist, sexist and totally unacceptable’-MDC-T secretary-general for MDC-T Douglas Mwonzora
VIOLENCE again reared up its ugly head at MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai’s burial here yesterday, with rowdy party youths threatning o torch a thatched hut in which the party’s co-vice president Dr Thokozani Khupe and secretary-general Mr Douglas Mwonzora had sought refuge after being assaulted.
The secretary-general for MDC-T Douglas Mwonzora described the attack on the MDC T party’s vice president Thokozani Khupe as “tribal, sexist and totally unacceptable.”
Mwonzora said: “The attack on @DrThoko_Khupe by a gang of sponsored and drunken goons at Dr Tsvangirai’s funeral was outrageous and sadistic. It was tribal, sexist and totally unacceptable.”
“The politics of hate and violence should not have any place in our society. Really sad developments at Dr. Tsvangirai’s funeral. The physical attack on @DrThoko_Khupe was cowardly and sadistic.”
Quick reaction by the police, who moved in to disperse the rowdy youths, saved the situation. Police escorted the pair to a nearby primary school’s grounds from where they then followed the proceedings.
The youths considered Dr Khupe and Mr Mwonzora as obstacles to co-vice president Mr Nelson Chamisa’s road to leading the party. This came as Mr Tsvangirai’s uncle Mr Innocent Zvaipa assaulted a University of Zimbabwe student at the graveyard in full view of mourners for photographing Mr Tsvangirai’s mother, Gogo Lydia Tsvangirai.
On arrival at Mr Tsvangirai’s homestead, Dr Khupe and Mr Mwonzora had to scurry for cover as the youths bayed for their blood in front of mourners and dignitaries that included ambassadors from Western countries and Mr Tsvangirai’s close friend and Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga.
Dr Khupe was heckled by youths who protested against her presence at the burial, when she was boycotting party meetings in Harare. Dr Khupe has boycotted meetings convened by Adv Chamisa in protest over what she feels is his unconstitutional rise to power.
She was jeered on her arrival, together with Mr Mwonzora. They were manhandled before the police intervened and whisked them away to a hut at Mr Tsvangirai’s homestead. That was when the youths threatened to torch the hut.
When Dr Khupe eventually joined proceedings at the school grounds, she wept uncontrollably and had to be comforted by MDC-T national treasurer Mrs Theresa Makone and the party’s women’s assembly chairperson Mrs Lynette Karenyi.
Away from Dr Khupe and Mr Mwonzora plight, Mr Tsvangirai’s uncle Mr Innocent Zvaipa assaulted a University of Zimbabwe female student at the graveyard for photographing Mr Tsvangirai’s mother, Gogo Lydia Tsvangirai.
Mr Zvaipa slapped Ms Nyaradzo Mutize three times before he was restrained by the Tsvangirai family led by Mr Tsvangirai’s brother, Manase.
Ms Mutize was forced to delete all the pictures of Gogo Tsvangirai that she had captured. She was also detained for close to 40 minutes under intense interrogation by Mr Tsvangirai’s family members.
Gogo Tsvangirai has made headlines after she threatened to commit suicide if Adv Chamisa and Ms Elizabeth Macheka attended her son’s funeral.
The was also an exchange of harsh words between the Tsvangirai family members led by the deceased’s brother Collin and Adv Chamisa. The misunderstanding delayed the removal of the coffin from the hearse for over 30 minutes.
Collin was insisting that the coffin be returned to the homestead to allow traditional rites to be undertaken, while Adv Chamisa felt proceedings should go ahead in the interest of time, as rains were beginning to build. Collin and his younger brother Manase stuck to their guns, forcing Adv Chamisa to make a public apology.
EXILED former Higher Education minister professor Jonathan Moyo Jonathan Moyo strongly condemned supporters of Nelson Chamisa who allegedly attacked MDC-T’s vice president, a woman, Dr Thokozani Khupe and Lwazi Sibanda (Mat North MP) during Morgan Tsvangirai’s burial in Buhera on Tuesday.
The Movement for Democratic Change, MDC T is showing a divisive culture with respect to its total diseregard for women power, the Ndebele vote which the deceased Tsvangirai had managed to capture because of a democratic spirit and unifying leadership style, yet with his death afew days ago, its all now alost cause because we have never seen such a feuding, broken MDC T with power hungry individuals and total disregard for aparty constitution and by default disregard for a national constitution.
The exiled former Higher Education minister professor Jonathan Moyo tweeted the following :Prof Moyo said via Twitter: “Sad that violence by supporters of @nelsonchamisa was visited upon MDC-T Vice President.
To the public, the suffering by Tsvangirai’s widow, leaves most Zimbabwean women feeling vulnerable,as she has been harassed, abused, denied access and common transport in escort of her late husband, denied family recogniytion at the funeral and clearly faces an uphill task with tsvangirais family after his Highlands home and property and whatever wealth they can lay their hands upon Sibusiso Ngwenya