Mugabe said this is evidence of discord among the partners in the inclusive government, but sources in government said Mugabe is angry at Biti's control of government funds which, over the years, he has used to splash to rural voters through donations of bags of maize seeds and fertliser.

Biti is not having none of it.

The Ministry of Finance has come under fire from Robert Mugabe and his supporters on many occasions for failure to handover cash to party activists masquerading as Champions black empowerment programmes especially the failed agricultural projects. 

Funding for the sector has dried up since the formation of the inclusive government and Zanu PF loyalists say the MDC-T Finance Minister wants the programme to fail.  

Mugabe said, the MDC-T party is also against what he called the economic indigenisation and empowerment programme which has been viewed in some quarters as asset looting. 

In line with these the party programmes, Mugabe has launched Community Share Ownership Trusts in Mhondoro-Ngezi-Zvimba, and in Shurugwi where mining giant linked to defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, Unki is operating.

The Schweppes Management and Employee Ownership Scheme another scheme run by Zanu PF loyalist Charles Msipa, son of former Midlands Governor Cephas Msipa has also been launched

At the just ended Zanu PF 12th Annual National People’s Conference, a resolution was passed to condemn Finance Minister Biti for lack of prioritisation of funding of Zanu PF empowerment programmes. 

A call was also made to end the inclusive government, which Mugabe described as dysfunctional, thus the need for partners to divorce and go for elections soon.

Meanwhile Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has also castigated his Finance counterpart Tendai Biti for failing to release what he called adequate funds to the Grain Marketing Board to enable it to pay farmers well ahead of the agricultural season.

Addressing farmers at the Zinwa Main Camp in Chiredzi North, Mnangagwa said the delays had affected farmers who wanted to buy inputs.

“We are worried that farmers struggle to get agricultural inputs due to lack of funds when they are owed huge sums of money by the GMB.

“We put the blame squarely on Finance Minister Biti of the MDC-T who does not release funds to the GMB on time,” he said.

Minister Mnangagwa said President Mugabe was ready to assist farmers get the inputs under the Presidential Input Support Scheme.

“There is concern over lack of adequate support to our farmers from the Finance Ministry, that is why President Mugabe had to intervene personally with the Presidential Input Support Scheme that has seen most rural farmers getting agricultural inputs for free,’’ he said.

Minister Mnangagwa, however, appealed to Zinwa not to cut off water supplies to villagers in Chiredzi for failing to pay their bills.

In the US leaked cable report, Finance Minister and who is also the Movement for Democratic Change secretary general Tendai Biti told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray that Vice-President Joice Mujuru and Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa were both “unelectable” in a national presidential election.

Commenting on the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front congress of 2009, Biti said the congress had been a disaster because the party had been unable to resolve the internal struggle over succession.

Referring to the election of John Nkomo as a party vice-president, Biti said: "An 86-year-old man swearing in a 75-year-old man is a disaster."

He said Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was sidelined by the Congress, had more support within the party than Joice Mujuru. But Mujuru had more support than Mnangagwa nationally, and both were "unelectable" in a national presidential election.

Newly elevated party chairman Simon Moyo "couldn't win an election in a bar".

By Radio VOP