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Tsvangirai got significant funding from US
30 Mar 2015 at 07:28hrs | Views
Opposition MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's recent trip to the United States was meant to fundraise for various party programmes including campaigns to force the Zanu-PF government to speed up implementation of electoral reforms and fix the declining economy.
Party insiders said Tsvangirai had managed to raise substantial amounts of money to run party activities after going through a bad patch since his third successive defeat by Zanu-PF in July 2013.
"Tsvangirai got significant funding from party activists and other traditional donors to the party for programming as the party starts to restructure ahead of the 2018 polls," the source said.
However, the funding came with some conditions that the donors will be paying directly to service providers, the source added.
Tsvangirai had a week-long visit to the US where he met party members and middle level government officials to apprise them of the political and economic developments in Zimbabwe.
The MDC-T last October held its congress on a shoe-string budget after being dumped by most of its donors and had to rely heavily on the $250 000 released by Treasury under the Political Parties Financing Act.
Contacted for comment yesterday, party spokesman Obert Gutu disputed reports that Tsvangirai had received funding from his US funders.
Party insiders said Tsvangirai had managed to raise substantial amounts of money to run party activities after going through a bad patch since his third successive defeat by Zanu-PF in July 2013.
"Tsvangirai got significant funding from party activists and other traditional donors to the party for programming as the party starts to restructure ahead of the 2018 polls," the source said.
However, the funding came with some conditions that the donors will be paying directly to service providers, the source added.
Tsvangirai had a week-long visit to the US where he met party members and middle level government officials to apprise them of the political and economic developments in Zimbabwe.
The MDC-T last October held its congress on a shoe-string budget after being dumped by most of its donors and had to rely heavily on the $250 000 released by Treasury under the Political Parties Financing Act.
Contacted for comment yesterday, party spokesman Obert Gutu disputed reports that Tsvangirai had received funding from his US funders.
Source - newsday
