By Talent Gondo | In a twist of events at the MDC T Alliance rally at Nzvimbo Growth Point, in Chiweshe, Vimbai Tsvangirai, the late Morgan Tsvangirai’s eldest daughter endorsed the Alliance Presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa.
Tsvangirai, told party supporters at the rally that, Chamisa was like a son to her late father and the party had been left with a good leader to steer the Democratic agenda forward.
“I will tell you a secret. I was the closest to my father and am the eldest in the family but Chamisa was the first born in our family,” said TsvangiraI, adding that the late iconic leader has passed on the leadership barton stick to the youthful leader.
A few days before the death of the MDC T leader and founding father, Morgan Tsvangirai, his family gave conflicting statements regarding the party’s leadership.
In a related development, Vimbai Tsvangirai has reportedly thrown in the towel in politics amid revelations that she is going to be contesting the Glen View South parliamentary seat.
According to a letter written by one of the party supporters claiming to be a youth activist from Glen View South and addressed to the party president, Chamisa, Tsvangirai is however bulldozing her way into politics on the basis that she is the late leader’s daughter.
“She is clandestinely being sneaked into the women’s assembly,” claimed the whistleblower.
Contacted for comment regarding Tsvangirai’s parliamentary aspirations, Douglas Mwonzora, the party’s General Secretary professed ignorance over the issue arguing that his party was processing applications and none of those applications were being given special preference during the vetting process.
“She (Vimbai Tsvangirai) just like any other young person has a right to participate in politics if she so wishes but she will not get any special or preferential treatment because she is Morgan Tsvangirai’s daughter. I am sure she wouldn’t like that too,” said Mwonzora.
“It is however too early for me to say anything about it because if she did submit her papers, they are still being processed together with all the other applications.”
Mwonzora added that it would be a violation of Vimbai’s rights of she was dismissed from participating in the polls simply because she is the late MDC T leader’s daughter.
“It is not fair to penalise her from participating in politics simply because she is a Tsvangirai,” he said, adding that if anyone had any complaints regarding aspiring office bearers and they were in the party, they knew the proper way of registering their concerns.
“Maybe the letter was written by someone who also wants to contest that seat and they are not eligible. Aspiring candidates should just come out clean and register their concerns openly using the proper party procedures,” said Mwonzora.
Below is the letter from the anonymous source.

I am a from Glen View, a member of the party youth assembly who has been active in party programs and am really excited and disappointed at the same time.

Happy that finally we are going to do away with Zanu Pf and all the ills associated with it but sad that there are some amongst us who want to smuggle the very satanic Zanu Pf tendencies which led to our ruin. Disappointed that at the moment we all thought the time for nepotism went with Mugabe and the remnants are going with Emmerson Mnangagwa this year, scandals of earth shattering proportions to the effect that Vimbai Tsvangirai, our late icon’s (Dr Richard Morgan Tsvangirai) daughter, is pushing to be made the Glen View South MP. I got information that she has since been clandestinely sneaked into the Harare province women assembly.

Vimbai was born when the party was formed but she never made efforts to join in party activities even after reaching the universal majority age, unlike her young brother Richard Tsvangirai (Jr) who has at least tweeted some very progressive tweets and motivates the youth to register to vote through his speeches at party programs and rallies.

Your ascendancy Mr President, gave hope to some of us who were now hopeless, you brought light to the end of a very dark tunnel. However, your coming in itself alone rejuvenated our hopes in overflow excess terms.Your coming signified to us the elimination of politics of deception, chicanery and nepotism.This involves corruption, and nepotism as a direct result of people in leadership positions abuse their power or relatives, friend and children of powerful politicians abusing power to corruply get tenders from government institutions and also get appointed into positions of influence when they have no capacity to work in those positions, let alone have sane reasons for wanting those positions.

As a nation, we have a myriad of examples of such people who lack probity but due to abuse of power, corruption, chicanery and nepotism find themselves in positions of public interest to the disadvantage