Tsvangirai will not move into State House if he wins elections

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has insisted that he would not move into State House if he won elections at the end of this month and vowed to serve for no more than the constitutional limit of two terms as president.

Speaking in an interview with the UK Telegraph newspaper from his Harare home the MDC-T leader responded to claims that he had personally profited from his time in power after forming a coalition government with Mugabe following violent elections in 2008.

Tsvangirai ruled out moving into any stately home should he win the elections and become the country's next president saying: "I've got my little house here. It is comfortable enough and I don't need to go into any particular stately house in order to prove, to prove what?"

He also pledged to serve no more than the constitutional limit of two terms as president.

"If I find that I don't need to go in for a second term, I'll give up then," he said.

Tsvangirai will, at the end of the month, make his third attempt to topple President Robert Mugabe who has ruled the country since independence in 1980.