Tsvangirai cracks whip on MDC UK

er Morgan Tsvangirai by engaging in diplomatic activities without a mandate from the President, has openly defied warnings by International Relations chief Professor Elphas Mukonoweshuro to stop engaging British and European diplomats on behalf of the party.
The errant branch, led by chairman Ephraim Tapa and secretary Julius Dewa-Mutyambizi, has taken the tussle into the public domain, leaking private correspondence between the UK branch and President Tsvangirai to the press.
Mukonoweshuro has described the two as “dangerous loose canons” and the opposition party’s executive will seal their fate in Harare today. A resolution is expected to be passed by the party’s Standing Committee, which will meet at Harvest House on Friday.
While Mukonoweshuro instructed the two to stop meddling in diplomatic activities after being directed by Tsvangirai because this was outside the scope of their responsibilities, the two responded in a letter that was unrestrained and not couched in temperate and professional terms. In their response they described the warning as “rubbish” and went on to circulate the letter to everyone who cared to read, dragging a matter involving diplomacy into the public domain.
The MDC cannot accept such “gross insubordination verging on outright rebellion.”