"We Have To Treat All These Wives Equally": Tsvangirai Family Speaks On Elizabeth Macheka Treatment

In an interview held in Buhera with the Chronicle yesterday, the late Morgan Tsvangirai’s brother, Manase, said they did not treat Elizabeth Macheka unfairly at all.

“We have to treat all these wives equally. Maiguru Elizabeth was with the body from South Africa to Harare, naturally one has to give others a chance. When we were preparing to depart from One Commando to Buhera for the burial, we were asked to provide four people to accompany the body and it followed that she had to give others a chance and that is why she travelled by road. It had nothing to do with allegations of ill-treating her.

When she came here last night, we gave her a room to sleep and what better recognition do you expect and she was quite happy. If you have three wives, for example, and even if one dies, that symbolic union cannot be taken away, particularly when there are children and when lobola was paid. If you do not agree with my interpretation we can ask any elder around.

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