Former Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Services and Zanu PF Marondera East MP, Tracy Mutinhiri, yesterday put to rest rumours surrounding her political career after she formally joined the MDC-T.
Mutinhiri said she was joining Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party as an ordinary member. “This time its official. I have joined MDC-T as an ordinary card-carrying member,” she said.
MDC-T national organising secretary Nelson Chamisa confirmed the development.
“Mutinhiri wrote to us a few days ago expressing her intention to join the MDC,” Chamisa said.
“We have accepted her membership to the party judging from her valuable experience during and after the liberation struggle and also judging from her useful contribution that we hope she will add to the great party of excellence.”
Mutinhiri was expelled from Zanu PF last year for allegedly working against the party in her constituency.
She subsequently lost her parliamentary seat and ministerial post. Mutinhiri won the parliamentary seat on a Zanu PF ticket in the March 2008 general election.
In July last year, she infuriated Zanu PF bigwigs when she accused the party of murdering MDC-T activists. After Zanu PF supporters invaded her Marondera farm, she accused Central Intelligence Organisation agents of wanting to kill her and dump her body in Wenimbe Dam “like they did to hundreds of innocent suspected MDC supporters in June 2008”.
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She was eventually expelled from Zanu PF in August last year over charges of working against the party. Zanu PF officials also accused her of being too “cosy” with the MDC-T and even cited a trip she made with Tsvangirai to Manicaland. But the former Zanu PF Women’s League national political commissar denied the allegations.
Instead, she accused State Security minister Sydney Sekeramayi of seeking sexual favours from her and contributing to the breakdown of her marriage to Brigadier Ambrose Mutinhiri.
