The executive was suspended with immediate effect together with two unnamed councillors within the Gutu rural district council over allegations of corruption.
MDC-T Masvingo Provincial Chairman, Wilstaf Sitemere, confirmed the suspensions.
"We have suspended the Gutu North district executive after it failed to conduct statutory party meetings for a long time ", said Sitemere.
"We have also suspended from the party with immediate effect two councillors within the Gutu Rural District Council following reports of corruption ", he added.
Sources within the MDC-T said the suspended executive was sacked following deep rooted factionalism which has plunged the party into chaos in the district.
It is alleged that there is a serious rift within the Gutu North MDC-T leadership, with some being loyal to sitting Member of Parliament, Edmore Hamandishe Maramwidze, who others want fired.
A member of the suspended MDC-T leadership in the district who refused to be named for fear of victimisation told The Zimbabwean that the party's provincial executive was also divided over the fate of Maramwidze.
"The entire district executive for Gutu north has been divided and this has come to the attention of party leaders. Some members of the district executive now want change of leadership in terms of who should be the next Member of Parliament.
“Some feel the incumbent should seek re-election while others feel there should be change of leadership and this is where the whole problem is emanating from. Because of such differences we failed as an executive to hold any meeting since we came into office hence all party business has not been functioning," said the source.
It also emerged that the MDC-T's Bikita East district executive is facing the same fate after it also failed to conduct party statutory meetings resulting in party business collapsing.
Edmore Marima is the sitting MDC-T legislator of the area.
Sitemere in his report to the provincial council late last year told Tsvangirai that the party was having problems in running its affairs in Bikita East.
"We are having problems in Bikita East because the leadership there is not holding meetings and is failing to organise party programmes sanctioned by the provincial executive", Sitemere told the provincial council then.
However MDC-T national chairman Lovemore Moyo has warned party provincial structures against suspending others saying only his office has the power to fire anyone from the party.
"You have the power to suspend but not to fire because you have to follow the constitution", Moyo told the Masvingo provincial MDC-T leadership.
"On firing you only recommend and my office is the one mandated to handle such matters," said Moyo.
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