Zimbabwe: Mawere Meets Tsvangirai, Sheds New Light on the Party's Leadership Crisis

14 February 2018

As the leadership row threatening to tear the MDC-T apart - and for the third time - continues unresolved, a visit to the ailing party leader Morgan Tsvangirai by South Africa based businessman Mutumwa Mawere throws some new light on the febrile drama.

The latest row is apparently over who should be acting MDC-T leader between the three vice presidents - Thokozani Khupe, Nelson Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri. More broadly however, is a succession fight that mirrors a similarly bitter ruckus in the ruling Zanu PF party which was only resolved by a military coup.

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