By Farai D Hove| MDC Secretary general, Douglas Mwonzora has said the attack on party Vice President Thokozani Khupe yesterday, was tribal.

He wrote in a tweet saying it was also “sexist and totally unacceptable.”

He full tweet read, “the attack on @DrThoko_Khupe by a gang of sponsored and drunken goons at Dr Tsvangirai’s funeral was outrageous and sadistic. It was tribal, sexist and totally unacceptable.”

Youths threatened violence on Khupe and Mwonzora yesterday and they can be see in video footage shouting, “Ngaaende!, Ngaaende!, Ngaaende!”

Khupe however says she was in fact beaten up “with stones,” and the youths were about to burn her inside a hut they were forced to hide in.