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Smear campaign against PM intensifies
Prime Minister's Office
September 13, 2012

In the past week, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has faced two interdicts to stop his wedding in what is clearly a well-choreographed move replete with malice and vindictiveness.

It is evident these are not normal claims, but nevertheless, the Prime Minister's lawyers have opposed them, including another one curiously lodged soon after Ms Lorcadia Karimatsenga had had her application dismissed by the High Court.

As you are aware, the Prime Minister lost his wife of 31 years through a fatal accident in 2009. The Prime Minister would like to thank Zimbabweans across the political divide and across the social spectrum for their support since his bereavement until the latest tribulations.

As a widower, he has sought to move on and in the process there have been several claims, some of which are out-rightly malicious.

The latest claim, for example, has sought to wrongfully allege that the complainant had engaged with Prime Minister Tsvangirai. This is false.

Some of the claims are part of a grand political scheme to besmirch, to malign and to soil the image of the Prime Minister for political gain.

Today's claim was lodged with the newspapers before it was served on the PM's lawyers and with the magistrates' court. There are those who have obviously sought to dip political fingers in a social pie.

Zimbabweans are pleased that the PM has now found a rightful companion with whom he publicly engaged; a loved one he will publicly wed on Saturday.

The past week alone has seen an outpouring of messages of support and prayers to the PM and his wife from Zimbabweans of many political shades. The PM and his family are humbled by the support, which has also come from the region and the international community.

Prime Minister Tsvangirai will brave these political machinations and he gives his assurance that they will not sway him from his goal of bringing real change and transformation to the people of Zimbabwe.

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