Tsvangirai secretly returns from SA hospital

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai secretly returned home yesterday. The party’s vice president Nelson Chamisa confirmed to NewsDay that Tsvangirai arrived back in the country in the afternoon.

Tsvangirai’s arrival time was a closely guarded secret, as MDC-T did not want journalists to swarm the airport to see his state of health. Tsvangirai’s spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka also confirmed that he returned home accompanied by his wife Elizabeth. Said Tamborinyoka:

President Morgan Tsvangirai touched down this afternoon from South Africa, where he has been receiving routine medical treatment after he went public last year that he was suffering from cancer of the colon. President Tsvangirai’s arrival has confounded morbid sceptics, some of whom had publicly wished him dead. He returns to take his rightful place in the trenches and to lead a stoic nation that has for years fought for democracy to remove a stubborn and inept government now engaged in a vicious succession struggle at the expense of the challenges facing the people.

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