Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said opposition leader Mr. Morgan Tsvangirai, will be accorded a state burial.
Tsvangirai gave up to cancer of the colon after he was hospitalized in South Africa.
Mnangagwa disclosed this on the sidelines of the official opening of Criminal Investigations Department (CID) new headquarters in Harare adding that government would assist in every possible way to ensure a dignified send-off for Mr. Tsvangirai.
He noted that Tsvangirai was Prime Minister for a period of five years and should be given the last respect by those in government. Mnangagwa had also sent a condolence message to the Tsvangirai family.
He described the former trade unionist as a national figure “who obdurately insisted on free, fair, credible and non-violent elections as a way of strengthening democracy and overall re-engagement of the country with the rest of the world”.
While speaking on behalf of the ruling Zanu-PF party, government, the nation, and his family, Mnangagwa reiterates his condolences to the Tsvangirai family on the sad passing of Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, the former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe and leader of the opposition MDC-T party,”.