{"id":7874,"date":"2019-04-23T16:07:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T16:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=7874"},"modified":"2019-04-23T16:07:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T16:07:21","slug":"ed-was-invited-for-tsvangirai-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ed-was-invited-for-tsvangirai-memorial","title":{"rendered":"ED was invited for Tsvangirai memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE family of the late MDC founding president Morgan Tsvangirai said they have invited both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling Zanu PF party to the former Prime Minister\u2019s memorial.<span id=\"more-3096224744019708\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tsvangirai succumbed to cancer of the colon last year and his memorial is finally going to be held in his rural home on May 4 in Buhera where he was buried.<\/p>\n<p>Family spokesperson, Manase Tsvangirai said preparations were at an advanced stage and invitations had been sent to many individuals and institutions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3777\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/02\/Morgan-Tsvangirai101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Morgan-Tsvangirai101.jpg 600w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Morgan-Tsvangirai101-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite having dedicated his life to fighting Zanu PF, Tsvangirai\u2019s family said they would like Mnangagwa and Zanu PF to attend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a closed session,\u201d Masase said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis memorial is open to everyone be it political parties, churches, individuals or other organisations, everybody is being invited. The reason is that Morgan made friends with everyone during the Government of National Unity, so we cannot be found singling out some people that they must not attend. Even Zanu PF is invited. We have send invitations through the right protocol channels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manase added: \u201cWe also invited President Emmerson Mnangagwa, we sent through the invitation and an accompanying letter. Morgan was a former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe and not of a party and because of that there is no way we can have selected people to attend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMorgan worked for Zimbabwe and we are saying everyone, be it the President, government officials and war veterans and other political parties are invited. This is going to be a very big function.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before his death, Mnangagwa and other senior government officials paid a courtesy call on Tsvangirai at his house in Harare.<\/p>\n<p>He was also given a State assisted funeral.<\/p>\n<p>MDC spokesperson Jacob Mafume said the party has no problem with Zanu PF or any other person attending the memorial of their founding leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE family of the late MDC founding president Morgan Tsvangirai said they have invited both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling Zanu PF party to the former Prime Minister\u2019s memorial. Tsvangirai succumbed to cancer of the colon last year and his memorial is finally going to be held in his rural home on May 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,12],"tags":[38,55,88,31,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-7874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-policy","10":"tag-zanu-pf","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-mdc","13":"tag-mnangagwa","14":"tag-tsvangirai"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ED was invited for Tsvangirai memorial - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ed-was-invited-for-tsvangirai-memorial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ED was invited for Tsvangirai memorial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE family of the late MDC founding president Morgan Tsvangirai said they have invited both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling Zanu PF party to the former Prime Minister\u2019s memorial. 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