Early Life and Family
Tsvangirai was born in the Buhera area in then-Southern Rhodesianow Zimbabwe ,to Karanga parentage through his father Dzingirai-Chibwe Tsvangirai & mother Lydia Tsvangirai ( nee - Lydia Zvaipa). He is the eldest of nine children, and the son of a communal farmer, miner worker ,carpenter and bricklayer. He did his primary education at St. Marks Goneso Primary School Hwedza,& transferred by his father to Chikara Primary School Gutu then he went to Silveira. He did his secondary education at Gokomere High School.After leaving school wth 8 ordinary levels, in April 1972 he landed his first job as a trainee weaver for Elastics & Tapes textile factory in Mutare. 1974 an old school mate from Silveira encouraged him Morgan to apply for an advertised job as an apprentice for Anglo America's Bindura's Nickel Mine in Mashonaland Central. He spent ten years at the mine, rising from plant operator to plant supervisor. His current rural home is Buhera, which is 220 km south east of Harare.
Tsvangirai married his first wife, Susan, in 1978. The couple had six children during their 31-year marriage, which ended with her death in the 2009 car crash. In 2011 Locardia Karimatsenga (born 1970) claimed that Tsvangirai married her in a customary ceremony in 2010. She had been seeking maintenance payments of £10,000 a month to keep up the lifestyle to which, she said in court papers, she had become accustomed. A year later, his love life made again headlines after a 23-year-old woman bore him a child and he refused to support the baby until she threatened to take him to court. He married his second wife, Elizabeth Macheka (born 1976) mother of three, on 15 September 2012.
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