Taona Denhere: "Accordingly, this article has been necessitated by the desperate blitzkrieg and kamikaze approach adopted by Douglas Mwonzora and MDCT when they unsurprisingly and unequivocally declared at their press conference on Wednesday the 12 of January 2022 that they will be contesting the 26th March 2022 by elections under the banner of MDCA and that anyone who will use the acronym MDC will face a stern legal challenge."
By Taona Blessing Denhere
In the late hours of the last Sunday of January 2021, Hopewell Chin'ono in the “solitary confinement” of his book laden study, echoed with a deep throated booming vocal, a 55 second "Dem Loot" song. The soaring pyrotechnics of his voice was infused with the old Dancehall chanting style accompanied and scaffolded with Shabba Rankin flavor in the yesteryear hit " Dem Bow".
By Taona Blessing Denhere
However, in the smouldering wreckage of the plane crash disaster of the mobocracy that engulfed the Rainbow Towers on the 27th December 2020, there was a schadenfreude moment when Douglas Mwonzora emerged as the new sheriff in town for the MDCT through becoming the controversial winner of the race to become president of MDCT.
Therefore, this opinion piece aims to unpack the likely ideological trajectory or lack thereof of MDCT under the stewardship of Mwonzora. I argue and expose that, just as under Thokozani Khupe, MDCT under Mwonzora will not enjoy any ideological realignment. But, rather there is going to be ideological reinforcement of business-as-usual approach to the politics of puppetry.
By Blessing Taona Denhere
Therefore, in order to fully disarticulate why for MDCA rebranding is now a matter of life and death issue. We need to first take a detour and retrace and contextualise the genealogy of intra MDC factionalism, splits and counter splints between the years 2005 and 2013. And why those particular episodes did not warrant or demand rebranding.
Today is supposed to be Independence Day;; that hallowed Uhuru day when we commemorate the gallantry of the sons and daughters of our land, especially those who lost life and limb so that the whims and aspirations of future generations could walk again.
Iran has announced that the Strait of Hormuz is fully open to commercial vessels, raising cautious optimism about a potential de-escalation in the Middle East conflict.
