Zimbabwe Vendors Association leader Sten Zvorwadza has said he was not paid a penny by ZANU PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Explaining why he has chosen to back ZANU PF, Zvorwadza pointed at the opposition which he said has betrayed him- in a direct inference to MDC leader Nelson Chamisa’s administration the party of which he was a member, and a parliamentary candidate as well.

He was quoted by the Daily News saying, “If there is a person who gave me money for the things I was doing they can throw the first stone, but if there is none then I am clean. In Zanu PF — when we are knocking on their doors — no one is talking politics. We gave the MDC a platform in 2014, 2015, 2016 but they declined to give us a voice.

“The MDC-T were even telling their people not to attend our demonstrations. In essence, at every point, the MDC-T was fighting processes that they purport to stand for.  As an organisation, we stand for the truth. If a Zanu PF person is beaten up, we stand by that person. We should not be seen as standing by a particular political party. We stand for all vendors.”