At least he hung on long enough to see Bob and Grace shown the door.
Elias Mudzuri, a vice president of the Movement for Democratic Change party, reported Tsvangirai's death in a post on Twitter on Wednesday.
"It is sad for me to announce that we have lost our icon and fighter for democracy," Mudzuri wrote.
Tsvangirai had been in and out of hospital in South Africa after revealing in 2016 that he had colon cancer.
Read more about Tsvangirai here, and watch a 2009 interview with him here.
He served as prime minister under ex-President Bob
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in a 2009-2013 unity government.
Obert Gutu, party front man, confirmed Tsvangirai's death on Twitter, calling him "a political icon, a humble and tenacious fighter for the creation of a peaceful, stable, democratic and progressive nation state in Zim-bob-we".
Last week, Tsvangirai had taken to Twitter to play down speculation that his illness was terminal.
"I have cancer and [am] not feeling too well, but I am stable and the process is under control. ... I am recovering," he wrote on February 6.
Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa, reporting from Harare, said that people in Zim-bob-we's capital were "shocked" at the news of his death.
Sounds like he was too.