Biti sneaks back into Zimbabwe

MDC Renewal Team secretary-general Tendai Biti sneaked into the country this week after weeks of speculation that he had jumped ship in the aftermath of his recall from the national assembly.

Biti, the former Finance minister and high-ranking member of former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T led a break-away from the main opposition party following its loss to Zanu-PF in the 2013 harmonised elections.

Tsvangirai recently triggered a constitutional clause that prohibited floor-crossing resulting in the recall of 21 MPs in the Renewal Team camp, formed after the acrimonious fall-out in April last year.  

Media reports claimed Biti left the country in a huff to take up a position with an American think-tank as a researcher leaving his comrades in the cesspool.

However, his lieutenants argued at the time he would return.

While Biti was not immediately available for comment, another former Cabinet minister and one of the leading lights in the Renewal camp, Elton Mangoma confirmed that indeed Biti was now in the country.