Former MDC-T spokesperson Linda Masarira said party president Thokozani Khupe is a ZANU PF project who received funding from the ruling party to destabilise Nelson Chamisa’s MDC Alliance.
Masarira said Khupe was being given money by ZANU PF after she failed to take over the MDC following the death of Tsvangirai. Said Masarira:
We were receiving money from Zanu PF. I don’t know who was the direct contact person who was bringing the money, but we got funding for the party from Zanu PF.
We were not a real opposition, this is why I took a picture of myself wearing Zanu PF regalia in Zambia and posted it on social media because I wanted to tell a story.
Masarira further asserted that the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), a dialogue platform consisting of fringe political parties created by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2019, is a ZANU PF pet project.
Masarira, who now leads an opposition party called LEAD, was fired from the MDC-T after she was pictured wearing ZANU PF regalia.