People from Tsholotsho have expressed shock at Professor Jonathan Moyo’s burial of his late daughter in Harare instead of at least Bulawayo closer to Tsholotsho which Moyo calls home.

Sources within the ZANU PF structures in Tsholotsho claim that people from the constituency are complaining on the decision to bury little Zanele in Harare. The ZANU PF supporters seem to be suggesting that the decision is a no confidence to the region by the Moyo family.

“In our culture we believe that a person is buried at a place closest to his ancestral home and for Moyo to bury his daughter in Harare tells us that that’s where his heart is,” said one elderly party member.

“The least that they could have done was bury the girl in Bulawayo we would have appreciated,” he added.

According to the sources very little was being done on the ground by the ruling ZANU PF to organise transport to ferry mourners from Tsholotsho to Harare to cry with the MP’s family.
“I am a chairman of a cell which recently voted 100% for Moyo but I don’t know anything about the burial arrangements and people are asking me questions I don’t know answers to. That’s why we have travelled all the way to Bulawayo here to ask the office what arrangements are being made for us,” said another source.

One of the people with the delegation from Tsholotsho did not have kinds words on the matter claiming that they are always being used by people to get votes and go and live in the luxury of the city life.

“This is how these people who come to be voted as MPs in the rural areas are. They identify with the area only for the votes and yet they don’t even own a home nor have a heart for the area. They simple say my father was born here therefore I will stand for you while they stay in Harare or Bulawayo,” he said.

At the time of going to press the ZANU PF Matabeleland North province was said to be still working out the modalities of transporting mourners from the region to Harare for the burial tomorrow. An announcement was said to be due to be made later in the day.

Meanwhile unconfirmed reports indicate that the burial of Professor Moyo’s daughter might be broadcast live on national television and First Lady Grace Mugabe is earmarked to present a key note address at the burial. The first lady and Professor Moyo are of late key allies in a ZANU PF faction known as the G40 pushing for the first lady to succeed President Robert Mugabe at the helm of the ruling party when he retires soon.

Professor Moyo’s daughter died in South Africa presumably on Wednesday and will be buried in Harare tomorrow.Source: Byo24News