Former Vice President Joyce Mujuru, her ally Didymus Mutasa and MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai are special-invited guests to the Itai Dzamara Saturday prayer rally, but MDC formation leaders Elton Mangoma, Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti are all blocked, it has emerged.
 
The powerful Zimbabwe Policy Dialogue Institute members largely concluded that it is only Vice President Joyce Mujuru and Tsvangirai who have been invited to the prayer function and by Wednesday night indications were that the others are blocked.
 
Heads were rolling on Wednesday afternoon when analysts at the famous policy think-tank debated what they said portrays Mangoma, Biti and Ncube in serious bad light, after it was confirmed the names of the three were out-rightly excluded from Saturday’s prayer program.
But how can Tsvangirai invite his “poisonous” arch enemies Didymus Mutasa and Joyce Mujuru who he previously accused of burning alive MDC activists including little Christpowers Maisiri, while at the same time ironically blocking Ncube, Mangoma and Biti, policy thinkers debated.
 
Some began to speculate saying that the rally is no prayer function at all but a publicity venture as said by former MDC spokesman, Mr. Nhlanhla Dube.
There were numerous emotional exchanges which led to Tsvangirai’s rally-commissar Job Sikhala hurriedly promising to contact the Dzamara family to beg them if for instance Biti can attend.
“Let me phone the Dzamara family and hear whether there is any problem to have Tendai Biti on the prayer Gala. I agree Promise, there is absolutely nothing sinister to invite Tendai Biti on this occasion. I personally want to see Biti present,” said Sikhala who also said others were invited.
But MDC leader Welshman Ncube interjected saying Sikhala was not telling the truth. Wrote Ncube, ” Job, a person of your standing should refrain from telling untruths.
 
“At no time has any one of the organizers contacted me personally or my office or any office in the party.
 
“This morning the media kept asking our information department as to how it is that our party or leadership are not being referred to in any of the statements relating to the event.
 
“As a result the Byo office contacted Cde Kurauone Chihwayi, our Secretary for External Structures  to find out from him if he had any information on the matter. He did not have but he then took it upon himself to talk to Bishop Magaya and asked him how and why it is that we have not been were invited.
 
“The good Bishop then claimed that they had our written invitation but did not know how or where to contact us as they were not aware of the addresses of our offices or any of our party emails or the telephone numbers of any officer or official of the party.
 
“In short, none of them as organizers knew how or where to find us. Cde Chihwayi then gave him our HQ address in Harare whereupon the good Bishop promised  that the invite would be delivered today.
 
“The good Bishop later foned Cde Chihwayi around 4pm today advising that the letter was unlikely to be delivered today.
 
“If you believe the good Bishop’s story that they had the invitation for us but they did not know how and where to find us then please also believe that my mother is a virgin.”
 
Om the other hand Elton Mangoma separately told ZimEye.com “We havent yet seen the invitation. As a party we strongly sympathise with the Dzamara family and still reiterate that the government is responsible for his disappearance . We demand that he be handed back to his family alive,” he said