By Luke Tamborinyoka
In spite of his major weakness mainly to do with women and his discomforting penchant to repeat your allegations in the presence of the person you would have gossiped about in their absence, Morgan Tsvangirai was a charming boss.
A rare breed of political principals who could even afford to attend unannounced the family funerals of his underlings, as he did when he turned up to pay his condolences at my grandmother Martha Tamborenyoka Gombera’s funeral at our rural home in Domboshava in May 2014.
While in government, he showed he was a man of remarkable fortitude.
When he was sworn in as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in February 2009, the country was on its knees. Basic social services had collapsed. Inflation had run amok while schools and universities had lost several terms and semesters respectively as the economic crunch ate away the social fabric and basic social services.
But in four-and-a-half years between 2009 and 2013, with him and the combined MDCs now added to the wheel of government, Zimbabwe’s economy was rescued from the precipice.