Tsvangirai's 'marriage' has created a political powder keg

Premier Morgan Tsvangirai's controversial "marriage" saga with Locadia Karimatsenga Tembo has created a political powder keg which could explode in his face amid clear indications it is intertwined with simmering factionalism within his MDC-T party and Zanu-PF.

Informed sources said Tsvangirai was entangled in a web of money, love and power politics threatening to extensively damage his image, the Independent reported.

Locadia was arranged for the PM by those close to him including the Makone family.

The idea behind the whole arrangement was ultimately power and politics.

Those close to Tsvangirai wanted to be the power brokers or king makers, unnamed sources said.

The issue has tentacles across Zanu-PF politics because Locadia is a sister to Beatrice Nyamupinga, a Zanu-PF MP and a relative of the Mujuru family.

The Karimatsenga family is Zanu-PF to the marrow and for a longtime now there has been close cooperation between the MDC-T and the Mujuru faction in Zanu-PF and this "marriage" was going to consolidate that political relationship.

Meanwhile sources said President Mugabe expressed grave concern over Tsvangirai's promiscuity and the increasing number of women he is making pregnant and dumping, saying the PM must sort out his life, even if it means marrying more than one wife.