PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will publish his memoirs on October 1 after signing a multi-million rand deal with Penguin Books.
Tsvangirai, 59, will also make extra cash after flogging serialisation rights to eleven South African newspapers.
‘Morgan Tsvangirai: In at the Deep End’, “traces Tsvangirai’s political development and activism, laying bare the challenges and frustrations of his political life, up to and including the power-sharing agreements with President Robert Mugabe,” Penguin Books said in a statement.
The autobiography, Tsvangirai’s first book, was ghost-written by the journalist William Tagwirei Bango. Bango, who worked for the MDC leader for a time as his spokesman, previously worked for The Daily News as a news editor.
Penguin Books said Tsvangirai was “globally regarded as a courageous and indefatigable symbol of resistance in the face of brutal repression” adding that the book would chronicle his travails “from teenage mine worker to trade union leader to Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in a coalition government”.
Tsvangirai has sold exclusive serialisation writes to South Africa’s Independent Newspaper Group and extracts will be published in its 11 titles: The Star, Pretoria News, Daily Voice, Cape Times, Cape Argus, Weekend Argus, The Mercury, The Post, Daily News, Independent on Saturday and Sunday Independent.