Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Zimbabwe opposition leader Tsvangirai dies at age 65

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Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has died in South Africa.

The 65-year-old former prime minister was being treated in hospital for colon cancer. 

Tsvangirai led the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, and was imprisoned and injured numerous times during a long struggle against former president Robert Mugabe.

Professor Stephen Chan of the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies says Tsvangirai should be remembered as a brave, if flawed, politician.

IN: He led a life
OUT: an opposition leader
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IN: Coming back into
OUT: set out to achieve
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