MDC-T gears for 2018

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T party seems to have made a volte-face and now wants to partake in the 2018 general election, despite its congress resolution to boycott all elections until after implementation of key electoral reforms.

Probably stung by reports that former Vice-President Joice Mujuru's People First (PF) movement had hit the ground, setting up structures where it was also targeting disillusioned activists from across the divide, Tsvangirai seems to have abandoned his much-vaunted "No Reforms, No Election" stance adopted at the party's national congress held in Harare in October last year.

MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu announced the party's change of tack on his micro-blogging Twitter account on Sunday, giving the clearest hint that the opposition had realized that its poll boycott could lead it to political oblivion, after the Zanu PF administration refused to implement the demand for reforms.