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Tsvangirai was supposed to attend Ndabaningi Sithole's memorial
15 Dec 2013 at 08:58hrs | Views
MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, was supposed to attended a memorial service for the late national hero, Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole at Freedom Farm in Mt Selinda, Chipinge.
It is not clear as to whether Dr Tsvangirai managed to attend the service as he was also traveling to South Africa for Mandela's burial.
He was supposed to be the the main speaker at the service.
Last year a similar service was held at the same farm.
Tsvangirai was supposed to be accompanied by several senior officials from the MDC-T.
The people of Zimbabwe will fondly remember the late Reverend Sithole as an icon who fought tirelessly for the liberation of Zimbabwe. There are also rumors that between 1977 and 79 when the traitor founded the Chimwenje militia that joined forces with the Rhodesians to fight against ZANLA forces.
Reverend Sithole, a teacher, clergyman and an intellectual leader of the nationalist movement, was born in Nyamandhlovu on 31 July 1920 and later studied teaching in the United States from 1955 to 1958 before he was ordained a Methodist minister in 1958.
In July 1963, Reverend Sithole founded the Zimbabwe National Union (Zanu). He went on to spend 10 years in prison after the then Smith regime banned Zanu on 22 June 1964. The late reverend is an author of three books on African politics.
He died on 12 December 2000 in Philadelphia, USA and was buried at his Freedom Farm in Chipinge. Despite national calls to declare him a national hero, Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF refused to confer him such an honour.
It is not clear as to whether Dr Tsvangirai managed to attend the service as he was also traveling to South Africa for Mandela's burial.
He was supposed to be the the main speaker at the service.
Last year a similar service was held at the same farm.
Tsvangirai was supposed to be accompanied by several senior officials from the MDC-T.
The people of Zimbabwe will fondly remember the late Reverend Sithole as an icon who fought tirelessly for the liberation of Zimbabwe. There are also rumors that between 1977 and 79 when the traitor founded the Chimwenje militia that joined forces with the Rhodesians to fight against ZANLA forces.
Reverend Sithole, a teacher, clergyman and an intellectual leader of the nationalist movement, was born in Nyamandhlovu on 31 July 1920 and later studied teaching in the United States from 1955 to 1958 before he was ordained a Methodist minister in 1958.
In July 1963, Reverend Sithole founded the Zimbabwe National Union (Zanu). He went on to spend 10 years in prison after the then Smith regime banned Zanu on 22 June 1964. The late reverend is an author of three books on African politics.
He died on 12 December 2000 in Philadelphia, USA and was buried at his Freedom Farm in Chipinge. Despite national calls to declare him a national hero, Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF refused to confer him such an honour.
Source - MDC-T
