A Herald story that states MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai only managed to scrap a little over £400 from his fundraising UK dinner is false and misleading, Mr Tsvangirai’s EU office has said.

“It is Herald at it again, the whole story is cooked up. There were in excess of 40 people who paid for dinner, the budgeted for subject to space. Each table had 8 people and there were 10 tables,” Mr. Tsvangirai’s ambassador to the EU Elliot Pfebve told ZimEye Wednesday morning.
The dinner was held in Birmingham last month and was charging £50 per head. ZimEye can reliably confirm that there were indeed more than 40 people in the hall. However attempts to photograph the dinner hall were fruitless as a Mugabe agent operating in the UK, Makusha Mugabe believed to be the source of the Herald story, blocked journos from doing their work. As a result of Makusha Mugabe’s meddling it has thus been speculated that the £400 figure reported by the Herald could represent net proceeds (after expenses) instead of actual collections.
The MDC UK & Ireland chairman, Tonderai Samanyanga also dismissed the report but refused to pass a comment. “The Herald can say whatever it wants but we are not worried and our struggle will still continue. The Dinner was an MDC internal function and it will remain that way. I cannot discuss any internal matters in the press,” he said.
 
The attendance for the main meeting which was before the dinner was 97. See pictures: