By Peter Matambanadzo
HARARE- Vice President Joice Mujuru yesterday visited Sam Levy’s home in Avondale, Harare, to pay her condolences. While consoling Levy’s widow, Gloria, and her children — Julia, Isaacs, Maurice and Raymond — and other relatives, VP Mujuru said the country had lost a pillar.
Levy, who owned the upmarket Sam Levy Village in Borrowdale, was one of the wealthiest people in Zimbabwe. “We feel we have lost a pillar, but there is little we can do,” she said. “That is why we came here to grieve with the Levy family.”
VP Mujuru — who was accompanied by her three daughters, Kumbirai, Chipo and Nyasha — said the Mujuru and Levy families were close. She said there was friendship between her late husband General Solomon Mujuru and Levy. “The General and Sam were best friends,” said VP Mujuru.
“If you remember, Sam is the one who assisted the General when he was involved in a helicopter crash and broke his vertebrae when he was still in the army. He introduced him to the best surgeons in South Africa and he assisted in paying some of the medical bills. So, the friendship between the two families grew stronger and stronger.”
VP Mujuru said Levy had given her late husband a second life. “This is why we came to grieve with the Levys and give them moral support,” she said. Levy will be buried today at the Jewish Cemetery at Warren Hills.
