Mujuru, Biti talks

Tendai Mugabe Harare Bureau
FORMER Vice President Joice Mujuru’s putschist cabal has approached the MDC Renewal Team fronted by former Finance Minister Tendai Biti, with a view to forming a coalition to challenge Zanu-PF in 2018 harmonised polls.

The cabal, trading under the banner of “People First,” is also understood to have made some overtures to other opposition parties in the country.

The cabal is yet to receive feedback from other parties, sources revealed yesterday.

However, Zanu-PF last night dismissed the proposed coalition, saying they had better things to focus on.

The revolutionary party’s spokesperson, Cde Simon Khaya Moyo said:

“We’ve more business to attend to including the implementation of our economic blueprint Zim-Asset. That (the coalition) is their business and not our business.”

Sources close to the goings on said a series of meetings had been held so far between the Renewal Team and the Mujuru cabal, with a lot of shuttling still going on between Renewal offices in Eastlea and Didymus Mutasa’s Umwinsidale residence to consult on the terms of reference for the proposed coalition.

Mutasa, a former Zanu-PF secretary for administration and a staunch supporter of Mujuru, is understood to have agreed to use part of his residence as offices for the People First project.