Tendai Biti's MDC-Renewal team was to have held its inaugural congress on 24 August proposing to change its name to the People's Democratic Party...
That faction's leading lights Tendai Biti and Elton Mangoma also fell out and decided to go their separate ways...
In Harare East which MDC's Tendai Biti narrowly held in 2013 the nomination rows slipped into farce...
MDC-Tsvangirai recalled the MDC-Renewal Team supporters of Tendai Biti and Elton Mangoma only to confirm it would not fight bye-elections before electoral reforms had been implemented...
Fourteen of the vacancies stem from the decision by Morgan Tsvangirai's faction the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai to recall members of parliament associated with Tendai Biti's faction MDC-Renewal...
Earlier in the year Tendai Biti the star Finance Minister in the previous Government of National Unity had formed a ginger group the MDC Renewal Team with a number of other leading lights from the coalition government...
The then Finance Minister Tendai Biti said that $47...
It did not improve when MDC ‘rebel leader' Tendai Biti the MDC Secretary General and former Finance Minister and Tsvangirai each ‘suspended' the membership of the other...
By the year's end MDC heavyweights Elias Mudzuri exiled Treasurer Roy Bennett and former ministers Elton Mangoma and Tendai Biti were suggesting that it was time to give a new leader a crack at the job...
During the coalition government the MDC Finance Minister Tendai Biti engineered something of an economic recovery but that has now been frittered away and the economy is in severe danger of slipping back to the chaos that marked 2008 (AC Vol 49 No 21 A diamond power play Mugabe rearranges the deckchairs & Hunger stalks the land)...