Foreign funding: Zanu-PF not clean either

President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF has no moral and legal standing to accuse the MDC-T of surviving on foreign funding because it was also guilty of the same offence, analysts have said.

Information ministry secretary George Charamba, who also doubles as Mugabe's spokesperson, told the State media on Wednesday that the government could soon deny the MDC-T funding under the Political Parties Finance Act alleging that the main opposition party was getting foreign funding.

He said this after MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora was quoted saying he would lead a four-member delegation to Europe as they start preparing for the 2018 general elections.

Charamba immediately interpreted the report as suggesting the MDC-T officials would be going to get money to build a war chest for the elections.

He also threatened that the government would stop any engagement effort with the European Union.