By TZN CORRESPONDENT
During their first meeting, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai refused to share tea with President Robert Mugabe, fearing the old political master might just trick him
Now Cadaverous and frail , his internal organs succumbing to the cruelly destructive power of cancer causing poisons, former Zimbabwe prime minister and MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai lay in a South Africa hospital bed for a week in May and word running through rumour mill and social media is that the man responsible for his impending demise: Robert Mugabe.
Tsvangirai,64 had been diagnosed with stomach cancer leading to a procedure that was carried out by a leading gastric cancer expert at the Johannesburg hospital.
He then underwent surgery on the advice of a panel of doctors, following a magnetic resonance-imaging scan and a subsequent biopsy second week of May.
Tsvangirai ,an outspoken Mugabe critic who led MDC since its formation in 1999, is reportedly accusing his 92 year old opponent who has a trail of perceived murderous traits backdating to pre-1980.
According to sources the weapon Mugabe employed is believed to be a highly sophisticated poisons administered in teacups.
These drugs from the Middle East are cancer causing and work over a number of years so that when the disease sets in, it looks much the same way as a natural occurrence.
Mugabe has shared power with long-time foe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in the GNU after violent and disputed elections in 2008. On his 88th birthday, Mugabe is recorded saying,
“It has always been peaceful, very peaceful and we were suspicious of each other at the beginning, time went on, we now got to know each other, now Tsvangirai can drink a cup of tea which I make and I will have no objections drinking a cup of tea which he makes”.
But in his book , At The Deep End , a suspicious Tsvangirai politely refused a food offer from Mugabe at Rainbow Towers meeting room. Mugabe insisted pointing to a bowl of food- an inviting array of dishes neatly arranged on the other side of the table.
“You know Morgan, many Zimbabweans perceive me as a murderer.They say Mugabe kills people.This is far from the truth!’ , said Mugabe.
Mugabe has notoriety for murdering political opponents. This was confirmed by his former friend Enos Chikowore. Other alleged victims includes Edgar Tekere, Eddison Zvobgo and VP Emmerson Mnangagwa.
When the late Enos Chikowore , then a senior Zanu PF member was admitted to a hospital in Kadoma a few years earlier, Mugabe felt compelled to pay him a visit to check oh his condition.At the expected time of the visit Chikowore sneaked out of the hospital ward and Mugabe arrived to find him gone.A search was conducted but the patient was nowhere to be found.
After Mugabe left, Chikowore came out of a closet and told friends and relatives that anyone Mugabe sees in hospital seldom survives.
“Ane ruvhuno”, Chikowore reportedly said.This meant that Mugabe’s juju breaks people’s spines.Chikowore survived his illness
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In 2010, Tsvangirai told a gathering in Chivi that he is pained by the serious fights between MDC and Zanu PF supporters when he and President Robert Mugabe have a good relationship
“Do you know that Mugabe and I eat together every Monday? We have a very good relationship now, why do you fight here? MPs must not be seen fueling violence here, we want to promote peace in the country,” said Tsvangirai.
In 2012, he further spoke highly of Mugabe saying his insatiable appetite for nutritious food could be the secret to his long life.
“Mugabe likes food, mudhara anofula iyeye (he eats a lot), with his favourite being cheese cakes which we share every time we go for tea. I think that could be his secret to long life,” said Tsvangirai while addressing supporters in Torwood, Redcliff.
The case might be that it was one of these intimate moments that Tsvangirai fell victim to Mugabe’s odd ways.Internationally this is the same way Yasser Arafat and Hugo Chavez are understood to have been killed by their enemies.
Zimpapers political editor tweeted, “Before Tsvangirai dies… It is understood that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is suffering from stomach cancer and only has a couple of years to live. One good thing he must do before he joins his ancestors is to call for the removal of sanctions he begged America, Britain and their allies to impose on the innocent people of Zimbabwe… #Ngaaenehake.”
Well-placed sources said Tsvangirai and his family had decided on the surgery on the advice of a panel of doctors, following a magnetic resonance-imaging scan and a subsequent biopsy last week.
Tsvangirai’s medical condition took centre stage in Parliament soon after his departure during a debate on the president’s speech when Zengeza East MDC MP, Alexei Musundire, criticised Mugabe and his family for shunning local health facilities — including his daughter Bona’s recent decision to give birth overseas.
But furious Zanu PF legislators fired back pointing out that Tsvangirai was also allegedly shunning local health facilities, as exemplified by his operation on Wednesday in South Africa.
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