Tsvangirai gets `asylum` in Botswana

source: The Zimbabwe Guardian
Floyd Nkomo
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:48:00 +0000

OPPOSITION leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, said he will set camp in neighbouring Botswana for fear of being attacked or jailed if he returns to Zimbabwe.

“It is no use going back to Zimbabwe and become captive. Then you are not effective,” said Tsvangirai in an interview with the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail in Johannesburg, South Africa.

In the interview the opposition leader said he would return after gathering international support.

“I’m mobilising international support, I’m being effective in making sure that the issue of Zimbabwe remains on the international radar,” Tsvangirai said.

Tsvangirai said international support would [continue reading]