While the party spokesperson, Douglas Mwonzora, was not picking his phone, highly placed sources at Harvest House separately confirmed the suspension.
“Mangoma was suspended by the NEC when it met today. Tsvangirai was present at the meeting,” said an MDC-T MP.
The legislator, a senior party member, however, said the suspension could be challenged as it breached the MDC-T constitution.
“Constitutionally, the National Executive Council does not have the powers to suspend a member perceived to have made an offence. That is the work of the Standing Committee,” said the MP.
Mangoma, the former energy minister under the Government of National Unity that subsisted between early 2009 and mid-2014, recently wrote a letter addressed to Tsvangirai advising him to step down and allow for leadership renewal.
He accused Tsvangirai of tarnishing the image of the party through a controversial love life and failing to guard against an MDC-T defeat in the 2013 general elections controversially won by Zanu (PF).
He subsequently made public utterances attacking Tsvangirai and accused him of setting party youths on him at Harvest House.
Tsvangirai restrained the youths from manhandling him after his call for leadership renewal, but Mangoma reportedly accused the party boss of sending them in the first place.
Other senior party members have in the past directly and indirectly called on Tsvangirai to step down following last year’s defeat.
These include Roy Bennett, the Treasurer General, former National Organising Secretary, Elias Mudzuri, and an ex-MP, Ian Kay.
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Democracy enshrine freedom of expression where ever it is embodied in the constitution the world over.The spirit we now witness in the MDC-T where voices are silenced by membership suspension is nothing less of The regime the MDC-T want to replace.Are we witnessing a dare devil substituting one for another.Should that be the case,then it makes good sense to stick to the devil known.Mangoma or any one else should exercise their constitutional right of expression without fear of repression or otherwise.
There you go! You are masquarading as agents of change from what the people people of Zimbabwe have known for the past 34 years but these are the very things you are practising yourselves. You have successfully inculcated a culture of personality cult. 14 years is a good time for one to be in the same position. Things could not have reached a stage where someone has to be told to go but conscience and principles should have. THERE IS NO LAW GREATER THAN THE LAW OF “NATURAL REASON”
SHAME ON YOU DARK-SUITED, DARK-HEARTED PEOPLE!!
Mangoma is surprisingly braver than I thought. He expressed his opinion fearlessly, while no one else supported him and yet by their silence they were complicit in the suspension of a man standing up for the interests of the masses. I hear even the brazen Biti, who took on the feared Mugabe sat motionless and silent during the whole proceedings.Have you developed cold feet mr. or has Tsvangirai become so fearful you quake in your boots at his site?
Mangoma is surprisingly braver than I thought. He expressed his opinion fearlessly, while no one else supported him and yet by their silence they were complicit in the suspension of a man standing up for the interests of the masses. I hear even the brazen Biti, who took on the feared Mugabe sat motionless and silent during the whole proceedings.Have you developed cold feet mr. or has Tsvangirai become so fearful you quake in your boots at his site?
Tsvangirai is a dictator. Well done Mangoma for being brave to express what other MDC=T members are afraid to say.
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