Mafume mourns Linda Masarira Hanzi ndaiva lawyer rake

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]I don't know the leader, Masarira.

[00:00:03]I used to be a lawyer as well. She was part and parcel of the political landscape landscape of the city. A lot of people had their own experiences with the head character.

[00:00:18]But I do believe that women politics is very hard for women.

[00:00:27]Their faults are magnified and their merits are often minimized.

[00:00:34]And they are vilified more than the men if they have an affair or two.

[00:00:43]It's seen as a sacrilege.

[00:00:45]By even polygamists will condemn them.

[00:00:49]But if it's a man they will not be condemned. And I I I think we must not take death as a punishment.

[00:01:01]Death is not a punishment for someone seated.

[00:01:05]Death is something that visits every family.

[00:01:09]Death is something that comes to you as a person. I was a lawyer for a long time at Chikurubi.

[00:01:17]Um and I took her out of jail. I used to buy a chicken every week.

[00:01:24]You know, buying a whole chicken is what chicken per side.

[00:01:26]At Chikurubi she was she was in there for a long time.

[00:01:29]7 months.

[00:01:31]So, I would buy a a chicken at the beginning of the of the week so that she could eat a food the whole week and I represented her for quite some time. Eyes on the cooker.

[00:01:47]Those who come to Mozambique I tell the press conference what you take up in Baba.

[00:01:54]>> [laughter] >> What do you take up in Baba and I eat beans?

[00:01:59]Ah.

[00:02:03]>> Five days later >> [laughter] >> I I believe that's life.

[00:02:15]Yeah, we we can't be good to each other.

[00:02:29]Uh that's life. We will never see eye to eye. So, I I and we have to teach our children that when we we we die as a society, there's a way that we lay each other to rest and there's a way that we able to deal with the differences when we were alive in a better manner. So, that's I I thought I should say something for Linda, the she was a lady politician. And lady politicians in this country are very limited. And sometimes what they do or not do, their acts of omission or commission are more put in the magnifying glass than the actions of men in similar positions. And it's a very very difficult terrain to be a woman in politics in Zimbabwe. And so, that when they are there, let they not be a lesson for others not to enter into politics.

[00:03:33]But, we must accept that at least she tried at the best of her ability and ran her race and then met her demise at the very young age, as I would say, and tragically so.