Tsvangirai has lost his moral compass

While The Herald has, predictably, gleefully reported on the "union" and its attendant soap operatic saga, the "independent" media have bizarrely preoccupied themselves with efforts to "uncover" the "truth" about the origins of claims that Tsvangirai had married his lover, Locadia Tembo, a wealthy businesswoman hailing from a traditionally Zanu-PF family and whose sister is an MP in President Robert Mugabe's party.

New Zimbabwe.com published a story entitled "The curious case of Tsvangirai's marriage" last Thursday which sought to reconcile the gaps between the Tembo family's claims of a marriage between their daughter and the PM on the one hand, and denials of such a union by Tsvangirai's spokesman Luke Tamborinyoka on the other. The story quoted journalist and political commentator, Pedzisayi Ruhanya, who suggested that Tamborinyoka's denials correctly reflected Tsvangirai's position on the alleged marriage.