Online Reporter
Joseph Madzimure
Political Hub
President Mnangagwa has mourned the passing on of Mrs Lilian Timveos at Avenue Clinic in Harare on Monday.
She was 51.
He granted her a State assisted funeral.
In a statement President Mnangagwa, who is the Zanu PF First Secretary, described her as a dynamic, grassroots politician, a community leader and an enterprising businesswoman.
“I received with utter shock and sadness news of the passing on today of Mrs Lilian TImveos after a sudden, unexpected illness,” he said.
“A dynamic, grassroots politician, a community leader and an enterprising businesswoman, Mrs Timveos’ demise has robbed our Nation of a promising leader and staunch gender activist who earned and commanded respect across the national political divide.
“Her re-joining the ruling Zanu PF party, alongside several hundreds of erstwhile opposition leaders and activists, mirrored her daring, independent-minded politics and tenacious search for larger unity and consensual politics in our Nation.
“We respect her immensely, and will forever cherish and remember her boldness in seeking to break the binary mould within which our politics have been cast, to the detriment of unity, consensus and cohesion in our nation.”
President Mnangagwa said she thus leaves behind a salutary lesson of broad-minded politics to those in opposition, while exhorting those in the ruling party to always strive for, and work towards building a broad political church in which all are welcome and accommodated.
“On behalf of the ruling Zanu PF Party, Government, my Family, and on my behalf, I wish to express my deepest, heartfelt condolences to the Timveos Family on this, their saddest and so unexpected loss,” he said.
“May they find respite and comfort in the great esteem with which we all held her. May her dear soul rest in eternal peace.”
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