By Lionel Saungweme | Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) Vice President Thokozani Khupe has been expelled from the MDC-T by the National Council, the party’s supreme decision-making organ in between congresses. Khupe has been dismissed for going against a 2014 MDC-T Congress resolution which calls on the party to “converge with other political formations.” Although absent from the meeting, her name was hauled before coals for opposing a “nationwide consultation undertaken by the late party President Morgan Tsvangirai.” The consultation is credited with giving birth to the idea of the MDC Alliance, which Khupe and her party supporters opposed bitterly. Khupe has been fired together with Obert Guti and Bhebhe.

Leading the Women’s caucus, many women stood up in the National Council to oppose Khupe for use of violence against fellow party members. She was also accused of forming a different party at the weekend. MDC-T President Nelson Chamisa’s tearful pleas to spare Khupe the axe fell on deaf ears as women shouted on top of their voices to be heard. “Hatidi vanhu vanoita mhirizhonga (We do not want people who are violent,” shouted Zvishavane Senator Lilian Timveos.