Iconic Morgan Tsvangirai, the ‘doyen of democracy’, remembered in Zimbabwe
Harare — Thousands of Zimbabweans and foreign mourners took to the streets of Harare on Monday to pay tribute to Zimbabwe’s iconic opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who died after a battle with cancer. Supporters wore the trademark red of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party which Tsvangirai led for 19 years, in which time it became the main outlet for opposition to former president Robert Mugabe. Other well-wishers wore portraits of Tsvangirai, flocking to a central square to sing and dance in honour of their fallen leader. A casket bearing Tsvangirai’s remains was adorned with flowers and driven to the square — named for his arch-rival Mugabe — after the cortege made a brief stop at the MDC’s offices. Tsvangirai, the country’s fiercest opponent of Mugabe’s tyrannical 37-year rule, died on Wednesday aged 65 at a hospital in SA, where he had been undergoing treatment for colon cancer. "Today we are paying tribute to a national hero," the acting MDC leader Nelson Chamisa...
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