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By Staff Reporter FORMER Labour and Social Welfare minister Tracy Mutinhiri, who recently rejoined Zanu PF, says she quit MDC Alliance after noticing the main opposition was “a white man’s party”. “When I was an MDC official, I discovered that it is a white man’s party which will destroy the gains of the liberation struggle, if given a chance. “Therefore, we must all unite ourselves in Zanu PF to defend our independence and our sovereignty,” Mutinhiri told state media. “We want everyone to come back to Zanu PF. There is nothing in MDC. It’s a white man’s agenda where black...

From my hotel room, we see the headquarters of Mugabe's Zanu-PF party at center. LAST week’s Zanu-PF politburo meeting was interesting in two ways – the apparent strange continuation of the shamed Kembo Mohadi as the party’s vice president, and second secretary. I have never understood what that meant except to remind people of his highly embarrassing sex scandal with married subordinates and other women, which led to his recent relinquishing of the vice-presidency of the country. However, what I considered much more extraordinary was the apparent gloating and excitement exhibited by th...

By Staff Reporter FORMER top MDC Alliance official Tracy Mutinhiri is expected to rejoin Zanu PF amid reports she recently handed a letter to the Mashonaland East provincial leadership begging for her readmission. The former wife to another once expelled senior Zanu PF official and former minister, Ambrose Mutinhiri, Tracy joined the MDC in 2012, only a few days after she had been fired from the ruling party. A former diplomat, deputy minister and Zanu PF MP for Marondera East MP, her troubles in the ruling party started in 2011 when she was the deputy labour minister and attended the burial ...

Emmerson Mnangagwa PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told the Zanu-PF politburo to expect more big shot defections from the opposition, in an ominous warning that could spell even more pain for the brawling MDC. At the same time, the 78-year-old Zanu-PF leader also told his party that the recent resignation of Vice President Kembo Mohadi had been unexpected. “Politburo will recall that in our previous meeting, I noted that our party policies, programmes and activities are attracting more members. “Last week saw senior MDC officials and former legislators Lillian Timveous and Blessing...

Nelson Chamisa THE infighting and strategic missteps wracking the MDC Alliance are once again coming to a head, with a worried insider telling the Daily News yesterday that the coalition was becoming “a Twitter party”. In addition, the senior alliance official also lamented the “undue” influence that a few “unelected people” – including “some politically-naive academics and lawyers” were increasingly having on the coalition’s leadership. At the same time, political analysts warned yesterday that if the MDC Alliance did not change course and recalibrate its strategies, it r...