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(THEZIMBABWETIMES) Biti survives serious car accident

Biti survives serious car accident
By Raymond Maingire
March 24, 2010

HARARE – Finance Minister Tendai Biti was involved in a car accident on Tuesday evening and is recovering at a private hospital in Harare. MDC spokesperson Nelson Chamisa said Wednesday Biti was alone in the vehicle, which collided with a truck and was reduced to wreckage. The accident happened along the Harare-Chegutu road and a few kilometers from the farming town.

“It was a sideswipe with a truck that was going the opposite direction,” said Chamisa, “The accident happened between 7 and 8pm yesterday evening.” He said Biti’s condition was stable.

“It’s amazingly stable. If you look at the seriousness of the accident and his condition, you see evidence of God’s grace.”

Chamisa could neither reveal the identity of the other party nor come to conclusions of any foul play saying his party will wait for a police report.

But according to his description, the accident could have happened in much the same way with that of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in March last year.

Tsvangirai, then newly sworn in as Premier in the new inclusive government, was also involved in a sideswipe with a truck.

The accident killed Susan Tsvangirai, his wife of 31 years and left him hospitalised for head and neck injuries.

The MDC instituted its own investigations into the accident but has not released its findings.

As Finance Minister, Biti has introduced cutthroat policies that have pulled the rug from under corrupt Zanu-PF politicians who were bleeding the economy with impunity.

Biti, a powerful figure within his own MDC party and in government, has routinely been accused by Zanu-PF politicians and functionaries of deliberately under-funding the agricultural sector in the country.

Zanu-PF says this is a bid by the MDC to discredit its chaotic land redistribution programme that has destroyed the country’s mainstay of the economy.

As MDC’s chief negotiator in the country’s inter-party talks, he has led a protracted fight to have the unilateral appointment by President Robert Mugabe, of controversial central bank governor Gideon Gono reversed.

He is now calling for the introduction of a law that will check the continued plunder of the country’s rich mineral resources by Zanu-PF politicians and the military.

Labels: CAR ACCIDENTS, TENDAI BITI

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