Biti escapes unhurt from car crash

Finance Minister Tendai Biti escaped unhurt on Tuesday when his Toyota Vigo twin cab collided with a truck in Chegutu, 120 kilometres outside the capital Harare.

MDC-T spokesman Nelson Chamisa confirmed that, ‘the accident happened last night (Tuesday) in Chegutu, he is stable and will be able to work, he just needs to be examined but he looks fine.’

A speeding lorry going in the opposite direction is reported to have sideswiped the minister’s car. Biti was briefly detained at Chegutu General Hospital for routine checks.

Chamisa told journalists it was too early to speculate on the possibility of foul play being involved. ‘There is no need to worry, he is in a stable condition,’ Chamisa added.

In March 2009 Susan Tsvangirai the wife of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai died in a car crash when a truck side swiped their Land Cruiser during a weekend trip to their rural home.

In the same month two government ministers from the MDC-T escaped with minor injuries after the official car was involved in an accident in Harare.

Gorden Moyo, the Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office and Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, the Water Resources Minister, were on their way to Harare Airport to catch a flight to Bulawayo when their ministerial car was hit from behind by a truck at around 7 pm.

A Toyota Vigo similar to the one used by Tendai Biti   Â

 

Catherine Mabhiza, the mother of the Deputy Prime Minister and MDC Vice President Thokozani Khupe died on 26 March (2009) at Arcadia Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa where she had gone for treatment.

This followed a fatal car accident along the Harare-Bulawayo Road on 10 February, 2009, which killed the Vice President’s aide, Timond Dube.

Reports say Deputy Prime Minister Khupe was meant to have traveled in the same car going to her inauguration.

Only this year Prime Minister Tsvangirai escaped a potentially deadly accident when his recently delivered Toyota Land Cruiser suspiciously burst a rear tyre as he was travelling at about 40 kilometres per our on a dust road 80 kilometres out of Gwanda.

A confidential security document from Tsvangirai’s office revealed that the Land Cruiser had been tampered with before being delivered to the Tsvangirai by the Central Mechanical and Equipment Department (CMED). It was the first time Tsvangirai was using the vehicle.

Last year in November MDC-T legislator for Makoni Central, John Nyamande died when his official twin cab hit an unidentified stationary truck in the middle of the highway along the Harare-Rusape road in Ruwa.

Suspicion has always centered on Zimbabwe’s notorious Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) often accused of engineering accidents to eliminate Mugabe’s political enemies.

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