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Top ZANU PF official defects to MDC.

Asia Africa Intelligence Wire

| July 11, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From The Financial Gazette)

Byline: Staff Reporter

BULAWAYO - Leonard Mhlanga, ZANU PF's chairman for Bubi-Umguza in Matabeleland North, said yesterday he had resigned from the ruling party to join the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). He is the first senior official to quit ZANU PF since the staging of the disputed March presidential vote won by ZANU PF leader Robert Mugabe. Mhlanga's exit from ZANU PF, two months before rural district council elections are held, dealt the ruling party a severe blow in an MDC stronghold in which ZANU PF had claimed it was winning back support lost in the 2000 parliamentary elections. "I have quit ZANU PF for …

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