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