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Zimbabwe: Susan Tsvangirai Dies in Car Accident Near Chivhu

Tichaona Sibanda

6 March 2009


Susan Tsvangirai, the wife of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, bore the full impact when the vehicle she and her husband were travelling in was sideswapped by a haulage truck near Chivhu on Friday.

Susan was seated behind the driver of their car when a haulage truck encroached onto their lane. Their driver swerved and the truck crushed the right hand side of the vehicle, behind the driver. Their landcruiser veered off the road and rolled three times.

Reports we have received say Susan survived the intial impact and when she was pulled out of the vehicle she was talking, but clearly in great pain. But a close family friend told us she lost consciousness on the way to Harare's Avenues Clinic, where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Initial reports suggest she might have broken her back and suffered multiple leg fractures.

The collision happened when the couple were travelling to Buhera, Tsvangirai's rural home area where he was due to address a rally on Saturday. The MDC's secretary-general, Tendai Biti, was one of the party's senior officials who visited the scene of the accident.

A policeman who attended the scene said that Tsvangirai sustained head injuries but was looking lucid and talking to rescuers who pulled them out of the truck. Tsvangirai was bleeding from his head wounds, while the driver and their aide suffered minor injuries.

At the avenues clinic, Tsvangirai had X-rays that proved there was not much damage to his head, but he has suffered whiplash.

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Author: mrzyphl
Fri Mar 6 20:01:22 2009

It's sad that Susan couldn't live to see ZANU commit political suicide by their last acts of criminal desperation. I'm sorry that Morgan cannot share the triumph with her when Zimbabwe is finally free.

Author: richerson88
Sun Mar 8 01:13:02 2009

Freedom for Zimbabweans means freedom from THE CULTURE OF RHODESIA and freedom to mop up the cancerous vestiges of the DEFEATED CULTURE.

Author: richerson88
Sun Mar 8 00:54:05 2009

Zimbabwe's freedom was enacted by the THE DESTRUCTION of THE CULTURE OF RHODESIA BY COMRADE MUGABE AND HIS ARMY OF AFRICAN FIGHTERS AND PATRIOTS.

Freedom means for Zimbabweans freedom FROM THE CULTURAL TRADITIONS of THE DEFEATED CULTURE OF RHODESIA.

Every other issue is DERIVATIVE, SECONDARY AND TERTIARY.

It is quite obvious that the historically effective negation of THE CULTURE OF ZIMBABWE means one and only one thing: THE LAND WILL NEVER REVERT.

Everything else is a sideshow of abysmal irrelevance and idiocy.

Author: mrzyphl
Sun Mar 8 06:02:05 2009

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Author: richerson88
Sun Mar 8 10:07:06 2009

The strategic intervention of the INVADERS during the cultural revolution that toppled THE RHODESIAN CULTURE cannot efface the cultural fact that the mentioned CULTURE was decimated by Fighters of ZANU.

A strategic mistake was made by the political authorities of the LIBERATORS by going to Livingston House---the HOUSE OF THE PERFIDY---in the INVADER'S capital city.

The hypocrisy of the INVADERS is phenomenal: they claimed they imposed sanctions on the Smith Regime. A lie: there were no sanctions; backdoor channels were mediated by the INVADERS to eviscerate the lethal intented effect of the 'sanctions.'

Realpolitik and hypocrisy in a combo.

Livingston gave oxygen to the militarily defeated culture.

HAVING SEEN THROUGH THE smoke and mirrors of the INVADERS, THE GNU should now RENOUNCE LIESTON, and CONSUMATE the revolution, which means one and only one thing, certainly NOT tradition of democracy, A PART OF ZIMBABWEAN CULTURE, but THE REVERSION OF THE INVADER LAND THEFT, a felony beyond any and all perfidy.

The reversion of the invader land theft means that the policy of the IRREVERSIBILITY OF THE LAND must be applied with unsurpassed determination, administrative efficiency, fierce juridical decimation of reactionary opponents---beneficiaries of RHODESIAN CULTURE---and a point by point deconstruction of any and all INVADER crap about the primacy of democracy.

We are all democrats now, but before democracy, before anything else, before Zimbabwe was the problematic of the land question: the IRREVERSIBILITY PRINCIOPLE is the body and soul of Zimbabwe.

THE REVOLUTION MUST BE CONSUMATED; OPPONENTS APPRORIATELY VANQUISHED.

Author: jeffjedi06
Fri Mar 13 03:25:47 2009

Mr rich88, your comment about Mugabe and the ZANUpf hold no substance. If the whites did not want to relinquish power in Zimbabwe and come to a compromise with the black majority they could have stomped all over central africa. The army was that strong. Unlike the murderer Robert Comrade Mugabe who cannot accept compromise, the whites did. At least there was food and medicine and jobs in 1980. Thats the problem with black leaders from Africa is that they see themselves as liberators from persecution. What they install is far worse than the colonizers. Zimbabwe is case to point. As they ONLY know how to murder mame and rape countries, which is what they did under disguise of the "liberation" struggle they continue to do that when the "liberation" is over. all my friends in Zimbabwe tell me that they were BETTER off under Smith than Mugabe. The proof is again in the fact that there are an estimated 6 million of Zims outside Zimbabwe. THere is futher evidence that ZANUPF cant manage a country is the terrible state it is in. To sit and try to justify Mugabe as the liberator of Zimbabwe just shows how demented these people are. To justify wiping out a section of a community does not hold any substance in the outside world and people taking that view will be dealt with the world community in due time.

Author: chokora
Fri Mar 13 16:35:48 2009

" .. If the whites did not want to relinquish power in Zimbabwe and come to a compromise with the black majority they could have stomped all over central africa. The army was that strong. .. "

You may similarly write the following:

"If the USA whites did not want to relinquish power in Vietnam and come to a compromise with the Asians they could have stomped all over South East Asia. The army was that strong."

But we know that the mightiest army in the world - with the most portent air power - bowed down before the Vietnamese without a single warplane to launch. The imperial invaders killed millions though upon million. Remorse? No. Retribution? No.

Enter Panama, Haiti, Grenada, Iraq/middle east.

That is a history lesson that Africans need to read and heed. Because a vicious war (of massive slaughter and genocide) prosecuted by the same imperial might will be raging in Africa (especially in West Africa region centered around Nigeria) within our lifetime .. And if they read the signs in that war, they will know that the war in Africa is well underway.... For decades, the war has been smoldering like the embers in the grandmother's fireplace The psychological warfare operations which were on-going since the Lumumba days, have ratcheted up considerable over the recent years.

Within this generation.

And if they read the signs in that war, they will know that the war in Africa is well underway..

.

Can Africans of wealthy Mother Africa come together in a hegemony that can stall or forestall unfolding catastrophe? Not if you read Museveni and Kagame and Khama ... All this history stuff is just talk. They have egos to assuage and natives to kill in THEIR brief but all so sweet lifetimes in power.

The signs are, before the end of the century, the African Child will be living in Africa as a stranger on Mother Africa's bossom. Like the American Indians in USA. Like American Indians in North America. Like the American Indians in South America. Like the Aborigines of South America.

Those who have ears have heard.

Author: turnex
Fri Mar 6 20:50:47 2009

Watching the news it is so implausible that this driver of the truck fell asleepand selected the car Morgan was in which was in the middle of two others in a mini convoy. Something tells me they were trying to pull another Tongogara on poor old Morgan T here and it backfired on them spectacularly and they murdered the poor man's lovely innocent wife instead! And just to cap off the total lack of respect the two main national news coverages did not even mention a single word of it. This is the same media circus that goes in lock stock and barrel to photograph mugabe opening a matchbox!!!! Disgusting!!!!

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