-Chitepo Family Speaks Out on Hours Before Death-
By Simbarashe Chikanza|The family of the wife of the late ZANU leader, Advocate Herbert Chitepo, Victoria, reveals to ZimEye.com of what happened hours before Mrs Chitepo’s death.
The Chitepo family said the motherly icon who was found dead in her bathroom early Friday morning, was healthy, happy and even talked for a lengthy time the night before. Her daughter Thokozile told ZimEye, Mrs Chitepo attended the war veterans’ meeting and came back home where she had a lengthy family talk. On the day of her departure, yesterday, Mrs Chitepo was just preparing to go to the ZANU PF Central committee meeting when her daughter found her lifeless in the bathroom.
Thokozile said Mrs Chitepo died a happy, reflective and caring woman. She said, ” just yesterday the meeting with the war vets brought a lot of memories for her for all the things the duration of the war, the struggle and now since independence.
“And she kept… we talked until late, about oh, how it’s so good that we can do this; must be sure how many of the ex- commandants are now able to take care of their lives and after all they have committed, she truly truly was concerned about people’s success, she was happy when she saw people successful
“.. I think between her and my father there was something about just wanting to make it better for people. ”
Thokozile however did not suggest any foul play in her death.
Mrs Chitepo was found dead on Friday morning. A state postmortem was underway at the time going to press. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE FULL INTERVIEW