Daily Nation Newspaper

Ailing Tsvangirai can’t travel

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HARARE - Zimbabwean Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai is reportedly battling for his life in South Africa where he is receiving medical attention.

Meanwhile, another Zimbabwe online publicatio­n, NewZimbabw­e.com, said that Tsvangirai's doctors had stopped him from flying to Germany for further treatment, as they feared the long flight to the European country "was not safe for his deteriorat­ing condition."

Tsvangirai recently hinted that he would retire from politics.

Reports yesterday said Tsvangirai's situation had gone dire, with NewsDay saying that his doctors had indicated he had "three months to live."

The report quoted sources as saying that although Tsvangirai was "alive and responding to treatment, his health continued to deteriorat­e."

His medical team had since summoned his close relatives to South Africa "to update them on his latest condition," the report said. Tsvangirai, a former prime minister, announced in 2016 that he had been diagnosed with colon cancer and had begun chemothera­py.

He hoped to lead a united opposition into 2018's general elections.

He won the most votes in the first-round of the 2008 presidenti­al elections, but poll officials said it was not enough to avoid a run-off against Mugabe.

As Zanu-PF ruling party loyalists unleashed a wave of violence, Tsvangirai pulled out of the race and became prime minister in a power-sharing government in which he was widely seen as being outmanoeuv­red by then president of the country, Robert Mugabe.

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