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Another MDC-T activist dies in exile
06 Jun 2011 at 15:53hrs | Views
The MDC-T has lost yet another of its dedicated cadres in exile in neighbouring South Africa, after Reverend Mufaro Hove passed on recently.
According to Kumbirai Muchemwa, the party's provincial spokesman for South African province, Hove died in Pretoria, where he held the position of branch chairperson for Soshanguve branch.
"We are deeply saddened by his death last Friday because he was one of the most committed members of the party, who really worked for the proper independence of Zimbabwe. He really fought a fearless and tireless battle for a new Zimbabwe," said Muchemwa.
Rev. Hove served in various organisations and capacities, among them the MDC Veterans Activists Association (MDCVAA) and served as a patron for the militant Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) of Zimbabwe.
Hove becomes the third prominent MDC activist to die in exile in South Africa during the past two months, after the party's Johannesburg South district chairman - Remember Moyo and Johannesburg North deputy chair, Jimmy Mhlanga, who died within days of each other in April.
Besides being active in MDC politics, Hove was a fierce critic of Mugabe's dictatorial tendencies in Zimbabwe and also wrote a number of blogs in which he kept criticizing the geriatric leader.
The exiles continue to die in the wilderness because they cannot risk their lives back home, where they still face persecution and even death at the hands of security forces and supporters of President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party, despite the formation of a national unity government in 2009.
According to Kumbirai Muchemwa, the party's provincial spokesman for South African province, Hove died in Pretoria, where he held the position of branch chairperson for Soshanguve branch.
"We are deeply saddened by his death last Friday because he was one of the most committed members of the party, who really worked for the proper independence of Zimbabwe. He really fought a fearless and tireless battle for a new Zimbabwe," said Muchemwa.
Rev. Hove served in various organisations and capacities, among them the MDC Veterans Activists Association (MDCVAA) and served as a patron for the militant Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) of Zimbabwe.
Hove becomes the third prominent MDC activist to die in exile in South Africa during the past two months, after the party's Johannesburg South district chairman - Remember Moyo and Johannesburg North deputy chair, Jimmy Mhlanga, who died within days of each other in April.
Besides being active in MDC politics, Hove was a fierce critic of Mugabe's dictatorial tendencies in Zimbabwe and also wrote a number of blogs in which he kept criticizing the geriatric leader.
The exiles continue to die in the wilderness because they cannot risk their lives back home, where they still face persecution and even death at the hands of security forces and supporters of President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party, despite the formation of a national unity government in 2009.
Source - thezimbabwean
