Mugabe visits Tsvangirai in hospital
2009-03-06 21:10
Special Report
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe accused his political rivals of trying to use constitutional reforms to get rid of him, but warned that his Zanu-PF party would reject any changes threatening its future.
A dusty road leads to the village of Wedza, where veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation war eke out a meagre living on their farm cooperative, which after a promising start now brings only despair.
Harare - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace visited the hospital where Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was being treated for injuries following a car crash on Friday.
The couple did not speak to reporters as they entered the private hospital where Tsvangirai was taken after the crash that killed his wife Susan.
"The leadership of MDC in South Africa is receiving confirmed reports from our Harvest House headquarters in Harare that MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai was involved in a head on collision accident," Sapa reported party spokesperson Sibanengi Dube as saying.
"His wife Susan Tsvangirai died in Harare's Avenues Clinic."
Dube said the couple was driving along Harare-Masvingo road on their way home.
He said details of the accident were still sketchy, "but we understand that they were hit from the front by a truck".
"We hope it is just a genuine accident and we appeal to Zimbabweans in South Africa to remain calm as facts continue to surface.
"We are however alive to the fact that a lot of Robert Mugabe's opponents died in suspicious road accidents involving army trucks."
On Friday night, Agence France Presse reported that the couple was headed to the Buhera district where Morgan was to hold a rally on Saturday, but their car was hit by a freight truck and Susan Tsvangirai died at the scene.
An MDC minister told AFP that the driver of the truck appeared to be sleeping. - Sapa
- AFP