Even in death Susan Tsvangirai, wife of Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, gave hope to the people of a country whose economy has collapsed with the world’s highest inflation rate plunging it into a decade-long chronic shortage of foreign currency, energy shortages and the pangs of human hunger.
As her husband and six children tossed flowers on a coffin during a private service in the Tsvangirai’s rural home in Buhera Monday, good news was already drifting in from the outside world.