By A Correspondent- MDCT acting president Dr Thokozani Khupe was this morning barred from attending the funeral for gogo Chamisa in Gutu.

ZimEye this morning exclusively ran the story revealing that Dr Khupe however managed to offer her condolences to MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa following his intervention hwere he restrained party stalwarts who did not want to see her at the burial of Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader’s mother’s funeral.

“She was able to offer her condolences to the Chamisas after the intervention of president Nelson Chamisa but she did not stay for the burial proceedings. She immediately left.

Confirmed Dr Khupe’s spokesperson Khalipani Phugeni in an exclusive interview with ZimEye:

“We did attend the burial briefly and Dr Khupe had an opportunity to pay her last respects to Advocate Nelson Chamisa. Of course you would expect skirmishes here given the current context and backgroundand there but we are happy that Dr Khupe was able to offer her condolences.

Today our focus was on bidding farewell to gogo Chamisa, what we want to do is we will not give so much energy and credence to everything else but the family and consoling the Chamisa family. Everything else we will address at a later stage.”

Added Chamisa while addressing mourners:

“We thank everyone who has come here to mourn with us regardless of their political background and we really appreciate your presence. Whatever our differences, this is not about politics but a celebration of the life of my mother, a prayer warrior…we really appreciate your presence and this is for everyone.”