MDC Congress 2019

MDC leader Nelson Chamisa faces a delicate balancing act of making critical appointments to serve in his top party decision-making body, the national standing committee, amid jostling and lobbying by mainly those who lost at the elective…
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The biggest casualty at the MDC Alliance’s elective congress in Gweru, Zimbabwe, at the weekend is outgoing secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora. Mwonzora was initially earmarked to challenge for the party’s leadership at the congress but…
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Lawyers representing Nelson Chamisa’s MDC have reportedly urged the party to go ahead with its elective congress this week regardless of a recent High Court order which urged them to turn it into an extra-ordinary congress.
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MDC president Nelson Chamisa has described next week’s elective congress as the defining moment for the party, saying it will usher in a radical shift in their way of doing business, moving away from personality-based politics to…
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By Hopewell Chin’ono The cynic in me thinks that the MDC-A would have made a fundamental fatal mistake if they elect Morgan Komichi to be one of their Vice Presidents. Just listening to him speak in the attached video is enough to…
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David Coltart: "It will be appealed. This is what is called a brutum fulmen - ‘empty thunder’, an ineffective order. By the time the appeal is heard a duly constituted Congress of the MDC will have been held and @nelsonchamisa elected.…
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We have just been advised of the High Court of Zimbabwe judgement issued by Justice Edith Mushore today. We fundamentally disagree with the judgement. The choice of leaders of any political party, the world over is the sole preserve of the…
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A High Court judgment declaring Nelson Chamisa an illegitimate president of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is “empty thunder” and will be appealed, a party lawyer said.
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The stage has been set for a bruising fight in the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC as almost all candidates nominated for top positions in the party’s standing committee have accepted and are now reaching into their war chests to mount rigorous…
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An MDC special committee has been put in place to deliberate on issues raised by some members to the party’s national executive council (NEC), who are unhappy about the way the just-ended provincial congress in Bulawayo was handled.
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