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violence during its primary elections amid revelations that it was levelling accusations against Zanu-PF and the MDC that they were plotting to disrupt the elections.
Violence is expected to rock the party’s primary elections in the remaining provinces following reports of the party’s leadership’s plot to rig elections.
The party is riddled with intense factionalism that has seen several bigwigs losing at the weekend resulting in some provinces going to primary elections.
MDC-T spokesperson Mr Douglas Mwonzora said they had carried out investigations and discovered that other political parties were planning to cause chaos during the party’s elections.
“As we speak, we have unearthed a scam involving other political parties that are planning to bus people in some provinces so that they can cause commotion,” said Mr Mwonzora.
“We identified that these parties want to bus in these people at various venues during the primaries.
“Those bused in will pretend to be disgruntled party members and cause violence.
“Their agenda is to send a message out there that we are a violent party.”
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The party’s disciplinary committee is handling at least 15 cases that are implicating senior party members for fanning violence during its last congress. They have since suspended several youths who assaulted different party leaders.
However, Zanu-PF spokesperson Cde Rugare Gumbo took a swipe at the MDC-T, saying they were playing cheap politics and should learn to solve their own problems without involving other parties.
“Our leader President Robert Mugabe has been preaching about peace to all Zimbabweans over the past months. Those allegations by the MDC-T are hogwash. Why would we spend our resources to bus people where the MDC-T will be conducting their elections?
“In short, Zanu-PF cannot be involved in such sinister motives,” said Cde Gumbo.
MDC deputy spokesperson Mr Kurauone Chihwayi said his party was not interested in what the MDC-T was doing since they were busy preparing for elections.
“We have no time or resources to chase a rotten donkey. We are a serious political party with some serious issues on the table and cannot be seen to be monitoring internal events of other parties such as the MDC-T which cannot even trust its own shadow,” he said.
The MDC-T has been rocked by a wave of intra-party violence over the past weeks.
On May 5, 2013 MDC-T Manicaland province organising secretary Prosper Mutseyami and six others assaulted two party members during a restructuring exercise in Chipinge.
Two days later in Masvingo, the party’s ward one chair, Tendai Murambiwa, was beaten for backing a rival candidate ahead of primary elections.
Several cases of intra-party violence have been reported in other provinces such as Matabeleland South and Bulawayo.
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