Mnangagwa, who became president following the military take-over, has promised to deliver on free and fair elections to win over Zimbabwe’s critics at home and abroad.
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Tsvangirai, a former trade union leader who rose to prominence by posing the biggest opposition, many said faced the most daring challenge to ex-president Robert Mugabe.
Mourners gathered in Tsvangirai’s home village in Manicaland province, many wearing the red of his opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
Tsvangirai’s death on Wednesday in a South African hospital cast his Movement for Democratic Change party into unknown territory less than three months after the army ousted Zimbabwe’s veteran ruler Robert Mugabe.
“I can confirm that he died this evening. The family communicated this to me,” Elias Mudzuri told Reuters
“Of course I have cancer and not feeling too well but I am stable and the process is under control.
Although he lapsed into sleep during the talks, according to images published by Herald newspaper, he was adamant he will not quit power voluntarily
Mugabe is insisting he remains Zimbabwe’s only legitimate ruler and has balked at mediation by a Catholic priest to allow the 93-year-old former guerrilla a graceful exit after a military coup, sources said on Thursday.
Tsvangirai, who suffered severe vomiting after a party meeting and was in September airlifted to a Johannesburg hospital where he spent nearly a month receiving treatment and recuperating.