The late Makoni Central MP John Nyamande has been laid to rest in his rural Rusape home area.
The funeral was attended by the entire MDC leadership and thousands of shocked mourners following the sudden death of the legislator in a horrific car crash at the 25 kilometer peg along the Harare Mutare road at approximately 2am on Saturday 7 November 2009.
Prime Minister Right Honourable Morgan Tsvangirai used the occasion of the funeral of the MP they adoringly referred to as the Giant slayer after he defeated Patrick Chinamasa in the March Parliamentary elections to appeal to the nation for peaceful co-existence between people of divergent and sometimes opposing political views.
Patrick Chinamasa who was defeated by the late Nyamande attended the funeral to pay his last respects for the departed MP who was his cousin.
President Mugabe and Deputy Premier Mutambara were conspicuous by their absence from the funeral of a colleague in parliament.
Only last week the state owned Herald newspaper and usual Zanu PF propagandists were making nauseating noises about the Premier having failed to attend the funeral of Zanu PF Senator Chando whom the party declared its national hero but they are muted about the non attendance of the President to a sitting MP’s funeral.
When next they declare another party hero a national hero they should not be surprised if MDC MPS and the Premier do not turn up because that is the relationship they are promoting by not even sending condolences or attending funerals of non Zanu PF MP’s and senior officials.
Hon Nyamande was as much an MDC hero and freedom fighter as Senator Chando was a Zanu PF hero and freedom fighter and the mere fact that Zanu PF has built a shrine where it buries its eminent heroes that the MDC has not managed to build does not change that.
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The funeral was attended by the entire MDC leadership and thousands of shocked mourners following the sudden death of the legislator in a horrific car crash at the 25 kilometer peg along the Harare Mutare road at approximately 2am on Saturday 7 November 2009.
Prime Minister Right Honourable Morgan Tsvangirai used the occasion of the funeral of the MP they adoringly referred to as the Giant slayer after he defeated Patrick Chinamasa in the March Parliamentary elections to appeal to the nation for peaceful co-existence between people of divergent and sometimes opposing political views.
Patrick Chinamasa who was defeated by the late Nyamande attended the funeral to pay his last respects for the departed MP who was his cousin.
President Mugabe and Deputy Premier Mutambara were conspicuous by their absence from the funeral of a colleague in parliament.
Only last week the state owned Herald newspaper and usual Zanu PF propagandists were making nauseating noises about the Premier having failed to attend the funeral of Zanu PF Senator Chando whom the party declared its national hero but they are muted about the non attendance of the President to a sitting MP’s funeral.
When next they declare another party hero a national hero they should not be surprised if MDC MPS and the Premier do not turn up because that is the relationship they are promoting by not even sending condolences or attending funerals of non Zanu PF MP’s and senior officials.
Hon Nyamande was as much an MDC hero and freedom fighter as Senator Chando was a Zanu PF hero and freedom fighter and the mere fact that Zanu PF has built a shrine where it buries its eminent heroes that the MDC has not managed to build does not change that.
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