Mutambara sideshow a costly distraction

The battle by President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF comrades to keep Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara in the inclusive government is yet another example of how our politics have not matured.

The MDC has now threatened to defy decisions made by Global Political Agreement (GPA) principals because the party is not represented at the platform and this can only spell doom for the dysfunctional coalition.

Mutambara was ousted from the MDC in 2011 after he refrained from stepping into the ring with Industry and Commerce minister Welshman Ncube at the party’s congress held in Harare.

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