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as a soft lady and mother who supported her husband.
She said her relationship with the Msipa family dated back to 1980.
VP Mujuru said although Cde Msipa was from the Zapu side and she from Zanu, she would hear stories about his imprisonment during the struggle.
She said after independence, Cde Msipa was her deputy in the Ministry of Youths, Sports and Recreation.
During this time, VP Mujuru said, Cde Msipa assisted her to run the ministry in terms of policies and other issues.
“He taught me to work as a Minister, he actually cleaned my brain from being a guerrilla fighter to being a politician and to being somebody who can actually be able to marry the guerrilla life and the civilian life,” said VP Mujuru.
VP Mujuru said it was during this period that she met Ambuya Msipa.
“To me, she was a soft lady, she was a mother to me,” she said.
“I had very little time of learning a lot from her but the few moments I met her, surely, I admired her motherhood, I admired her support that was filtering through to the office, where I was being given this support by Sekuru Msipa,” said VP Mujuru.
VP Mujuru said she saw it fit to visit Cde Msipa as per tradition even though she had called him the day Ambuya Msipa passed on as she was leaving the country.
VP Mujuru was accompanied by Minister of State in the late Vice President Nkomo’s Office Flora Bhuka and Minister of State in Vice President Mujuru’s Office Sylvester Nguni.
Ambuya Msipa was declared a liberation war heroine and was buried in Gweru.
President Mugabe attended the burial ceremony.
Online Reporter