Ray Nkosi | The boy who booed Grace Mugabe during a rally Magura Charumbira was conferred with hero status, while veteran opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been denied the special honour by the President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration.

Commented a ZimEye reader, “A guy who just booed Grace Mugabe at one occassion was granted hero status yet on the other hand a guy who wants served as Prime Minister of the Republic and helped stabilize the economy in a period of 5 years is denied hero status.Such politics is inmature politics,whether political parties oppose each other they all work for a common object to better the lives of citizens of that particular country.This thing of seeing a person who opposes you as your enemt will get us nowhere.”

Charumbira, a 34 year old who did not participate in the liberation struggle and Zanu-PF Bulawayo central district chairperson, died in a crash, when the Mercedes-Benz E-Class he was travelling in rammed into the back of a stationary haulage truck trailer along the Bulawayo-Harare highway near Norton, a small town about 40 kilometres west of Harare.

Speaking on denying the hero status Mnangagwa told journalists the government has instructed the Zimbabwean Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa to liaise with the Tsvangirai family on how best to deal with the departure of the late opposition MDC-T party leader.

He added that Mr Tsvangirai shaped the political discourse in this country for a long time he was in politics and was the Prime Minister for five years hence the need for a befitting send-off.

Mr Tsvangirai (65) died yesterday in South Africa where he was receiving treatment for colon cancer.