The Movement for Democratic Change has lost its virginity, according to an article in the Guardian today. According to academic and author Blessing-Miles Tendi, one MDC cabinet minister said: “We have lost our virginity, our innocence, our high moral ground. At the last cabinet meeting of (18 December) 2012 MDC ministers put up a huge fight for an unwarranted US$21 000 housing allowance per cabinet member. Tendai Biti was saying, how do we justify this given that we are not going to increase civil servants’ salaries? My colleagues in the MDC came up with clever ideas for hiding the housing allowance so the public will not know. What was shocking is that only one ZANU-PF minister spoke forcefully for the allowance. The real pressure came from my people. They were passionate. I sat there thinking if only the public out there knew this.”
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