On this day in 1952, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai was born in Buhera, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Tsvangirai was a Zimbabwean politician who the Movement for Democratic Change party (MDC) in 1999 and served as the country’s Prime Minister from 2009 to 2013. He died in 2018 at the age of 65.
On this day in 2009, Morgan Tsvangirai together with his wife Susan Tsvangirai were involved in an accident. The accident took place on the Harare-Masvingo highway as they were on their way to Buhera. Susan died on the accident scene whereas Morgan survived with injuries.