Tsvangirai’s father in-law speaks out

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MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s father-in-law yesterday said he was yet to be informed that his daughter Elizabeth Macheka had walked out of the marriage

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s father-in-law yesterday said he was yet to be informed that his daughter Elizabeth Macheka had walked out of her marriage with the former prime minister.

JOHN NYASHANU Staff reporter

Joseph Macheka, a former Chitungwiza mayor and Zanu PF central committee member said the couple’s marital problems had not be discussed at family level.

“I have heard she is now staying in Borrowdale, but I have not been informed about it officially,” he told our sister paper NewsDay.

“I never bothered to find out because as you know from our African culture, I would be the last person to know their marital problems.”

Tsvangirai last week told a local newspaper that his wife had moved out of their Highlands home and was now staying at a house in Borrowdale.

On Saturday Elizabeth revealed that she had left her husband because he had a “sensitive” medical problem he was struggling to deal with.

She also claimed that she was not happy with Tsvangirai’s decision to visit Nigerian televangelist Temitope Balogun Joshua last year in a bid to solve the problem.

Macheka also refused to provide details of aunties who could be in constant touch with his daughter.

“I definitely cannot give you her number. I think you can get it from those two (Tsvangirai and Elizabeth),” he said.

However, Tsvangirai’s spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka has since dismissed the claims saying the MDC-T leader was fit as a fiddle.

Tamborinyoka also refused to shed light on steps Tsvangirai was taking to solve his marital problems.

“We are no longer talking about that issue,” he said. “This case, as far as we are concerned is now water under the bridge and what we have said is enough.”

Meanwhile, the story about Tsvangirai’s problems has given fodder to his foes with a Zanu PF deputy director of information Psychology Maziwisa taking to social networks to lampoon the former trade unionist.

“Month after month, week after week and almost day after day, Tsvangirai seems to have forgotten that he is a public figure, a leader and a Christian who should be an impeccable illustration to millions of our young people,” Maziwisa wrote on Facebook.

“He has changed women like a horny schoolboy and all his marriages, with the exception of one, have ended in utter disgrace.”

But the majority of respondents were not amused with his comments, demanding that instead of wasting time on trivia, he should be telling the country what Zanu PF is doing to reverse the economic decline in the country.