{"id":9394,"date":"2012-04-22T06:52:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T06:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=9394"},"modified":"2012-04-22T06:52:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T06:52:27","slug":"zimbabwes-pm-tsvangirai-gets-engaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/22\/zimbabwes-pm-tsvangirai-gets-engaged\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe’s PM Tsvangirai gets engaged"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has got engaged to a Harare businesswoman whose father is a high ranking member of President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF, his spokesman said Saturday.
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\n“Yes, it’s very true that the prime minister is engaged,” said the spokesman, Luke Tamborinyoka.<\/p>\n

“The nation will be advised if there is going to be a wedding.”<\/p>\n

His fiance Elizabeth Macheka is a 35-year-old businesswoman who runs a beauty salon in Harare.<\/p>\n

Her father Joseph Macheka is a former mayor of Chitungwiza, south of the capital, and he is a member of the central committee in the party of Tsvangirai’s long-time rival Mugabe.<\/p>\n

Tsvangirai’s wife died in a car crash, which he survived, in 2009 shortly after forming a unity government with Mugabe to pull the country out of crisis after botched polls.<\/p>\n

Macheka’s first husband, an airforce commander, died in a car crash in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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