Jonathan Moyo, Mutsvangwa verbal tiff escalates

A verbal war between Zanu-PF Politburo members Professor Jonathan Moyo and Christopher Mutsvangwa escalated yesterday with Mutsvangwa challenging Prof Moyo to go for a DNA test, claiming the Tsholotsho North MP was the son of the late Zanu (Ndonga) leader Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole.

Mutsvangwa said Moyo's life needs to be unpacked. Mutsvangwa, who appeared to be responding to media reports that Prof Moyo had threatened, through micro-blogging site Twitter, to take him to court.

Mutsvangwa said Jonathan should shut up and stop commenting about the war, he went to America to follow his father.

"I'm now told that Sithole is actually his father. I want him to go for a DNA test and prove that he's not a member of the Sithole family."