MDC-T is a youthful, lethal mutant of Zanu-PF

On Elton Mangoma's assault, one senior MDC-T party member said, "It is shocking that this thing actually took place right in Tsvangirai's face and with him smiling. He never made an effort to tell his youths to back off but he remained staring at Mangoma being beaten up. It was so clear and obvious that these people were sponsored by Tsvangirai."
There are reports that Tendai Biti survived only because he left Harvest House clutching onto Tsvangirai's jacket. Youth Assembly Secretary General Promise Mkwananzi was also assaulted while his boss Solomon Madzore was holed up in the building unable to leave.
Rewind back to 2012:
Asked on BBC Hard talk in 2012 on why the MDC and MDC T split and are failing to reunite, here are extracts of Professor Welshman Ncube's responses:
WN:"Well, what is important is that when we oppose Zanu-PF and when weseek to remove Zanu-PF we must all be clear and united in that the alternative government we want to establish will in fact, not just in deeds, will in fact be different from the Zanu-PF government either by reference to corruption, by reference to mismanagement, by reference to non-violence - all of those things.
So when the things which divide us make some of us doubt that that government will be different from Zanu-PF, that is why it is so important that we must be opposed to Zanu-PF in both words and in deeds. There is no point in removing Zanu-PF only to replace it with exactly the same entity."
BBC: "Are you equating Morgan Tsvangirai, the Prime Minister, with President Robert Mugabe who has been in power for 32 years?
WN: "I'm not equating anyone. I'm simply saying those things that divide us go to the heart of our opposition to Zanu-PF. When we say we must be non-violent we must mean it and we must live it. So when our colleagues practise violence against others and also against themselves we say, eh[interrupted].
BBC: "So which colleagues are you talking about here because you are being a little bit indirect. Just spell it out for us. Are you accusing the MDC faction led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of waging some kind of campaign against your faction?
WN: "No. I'm saying the things which divide us, the things which divided us at the time of the split are essentially to do with the things I'm talking about. If we begin to act violently against each other and against ourselves; if we begin to defy collective decisions that we would have made; if during for instance the currency of the inclusive government we have local government structures which act as corruptly as Zanu-PF has done over the last 32 years, those are the things which divide us, and they are genuine differences."
BBC:I want to ask you very, very clearly, and I would like a clear answer, should the MDC not just remain united under the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai who after all is highly acclaimed in international circles. Very simple question, what's you answer?
WN: Well, the answer is simple. The things that divide us now make it impossible for us to work together.
BBC: What have you got against Morgan Tsvangirai?
WN: Absolutely nothing against the person of Morgan Tsvangirai. Our differences are about our political behaviours and the things we do as politicians. I keep under lining, it is on record that our colleagues in the MDC-T often practise violence; it is on record that Morgan Tsvangirai himself has reversed collectively made decisions and it is also on record that the local government structures that they control have acted as corruptly if not more corruptly than the Zanu-PF ones.Those are the things which divide us.
I shall not speak.