Parties stampede over Adam funeral

The death of legendary soccer player Adam Ndlovu in a car crash last Sunday has sent political parties falling over each other in desperate attempts to be viewed as more supportive to the Ndlovu family and therefore more acceptable to the grieving masses of Zimbabwe, especially the electorate in the Matabeleland region.

Political analysts yesterday said it was difficult to dissociate the stampede by politicians from vote-seeking shenanigans — given the approaching elections. They said it was also difficult for the politicians to lay back and do nothing after such an emotion-wrecking development that has cast a black cloud across Zimbabwe.

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