Tsvangirai suspends top aides

MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday cracked the whip and suspended two of his top allies, deputy treasurer-general Charlton Hwende and party deputy spokesperson, Tabitha Khumalo over their alleged links to the bloody intra-party clashes in Bulawayo on Sunday.

Khumalo and Hwende, who are both members of the party’s standing committee, were suspended alongside three youth members believed to be involved in the skirmishes, where Tsvangirai’s deputy Thokozani Khupe, chairperson, Lovemore Moyo and deputy organising secretary, Abednico Bhebhe were assaulted.

Tsvangirai’s spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka, in a statement, said the five were suspended pending full investigations into their alleged complicity in the violence.

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