Gorden Moyo's election will stand

Tsvangirai has shown little enthusiasm towards complaints from the hotly contested Bulawayo provincial vote won by the party's political new boy Gorden Moyo, who is also the State Enterprise and Parastatals minister.

The Bulawayo elections were marred by allegations of rigging, vote buying and violence and Moyo's vanquished rival Matson Hlalo's supporters have accused Tsvangirai and his deputy Thokozani Khupe of being sympathetic to the minister.

Hlalo's backers and the anti-Moyo lobby have threatened to mobilise and disrupt the national congress if the result is not nullified and a fresh vote held.

They alleged that delegates from Mpopoma, Pelandaba and Magwegwe were suspiciously disqualified from voting by the national committee presiding over the provincial vote.