Sekai Holland the former MDC Renewal interim leader resigned from the movement because she “did not” want to associate herself with “mediocrity”,a senior  official in her new peace project has said.
Holland resigned from the Morgan Tsvangirai MDC splinter party last week where she was serving as the interim President.
Her resignation was last Wednesday followed by the split of the party which was announced by its Treasurer General Elton Mangoma.
Holland said she resigned because she wanted to concentrate on her new civil society peace project.
“We saw this coming and we convinced her to step down .In fact we begged her and pleaded with her that if she was going to be involved in the split her integrity was going  to be greatly compromised and she understood and decided to leave before   this rubbish happened,” a senior official working with Holland in her new Peace project   the Zimbabwe Peace Trust,Zimeye Harare .
The official ruled out reports that Holland was ousted from the Renewal Team for her alliance with Vice President Emerson Mnangangwa because the Renewal Team was negotiating with former Vice President Joice Mujuru with a view of clinching a political pact.
According to unconfirmed reports Holland’s association with   Mnangagwa was going to hinder negotiations the party was having with Mujuru since she is a Mnangagwa rival.
“The  relationship  between  her (Holland) and Mnangagwa is on the national peace initiative and their  combined  effort  to   establish  a peace degree programme at the Midlands State University  a thing which they have achieved ,and  nothing more than that”, he said.
“This   new Zimbabwe Peace Trust is a parallel organization which has nothing to do with Mnangagwa”.
MDC Renewal spokesperson Jacob Mafume applauded Holland for doing “the honorable thing”.
“Madam Holland resignation had her reasons which we accepted and we have thanked her for that,”said Mafume. 
“The problem in Zimbabwe is about leaders who do not resign not about those who resign. 
“This infantile attempts to stigmatize resignation must stop we must look at those who have failed but refuse to resign”.