The late music icon Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi has been widely regarded as a unifier, an exemplary father figure, but events at his burial in his rural Madziwa home yesterday suggested otherwise, as his estranged first wife, Melody Murape, was frozen out of the proceedings.
Instead, everyone from government officials and close family members chose to only recognise Tuku’s surviving spouse, Daisy Mtukudzi nee Mashonga.
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Melody, who is the mother of Sandra and Selmor, was left out during introductions and other proceedings by the family spokesperson.
It only took Tuku’s first born, Sandra, to announce her mother’s presence when they were introduced to the mourners.
