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HARARE – The resignations of Fadzayi Mahere and Allan Markham as MPs representing Mt Pleasant and Harare East respectively have now been confirmed by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda.
Professor Kenneth Mufuka
I have asked, with the accommodation of the Holy Spirit that the poisoned chalice, which Sengezo Tshabangu holds be allowed to pass. Nevertheless, I am not always able to choose topics I want.
Tshabangu, a tribalist to boot, who has the brains the size of a peanut, has nevertheless turned out to be the “baddest” brother and betrayer of the CCC party, exceeding the wildest dreams of Douglas Mwonzora and Thokozani Khupe.
In the aftermath of Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa dumping what he has called a “contaminated” opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party, Nehanda Radio brings you a collection of Quotable Quotes as citizens react to the news.
By Pride Mkono
Nelson Chamisa, the prominent opposition figure in Zimbabwe for the past five years, recently resigned from the Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC), a party he founded exactly two years ago.
The tumultuous events leading to his departure included political intrigues, a lack of conventional structures within the CCC, and a controversial internal candidate selection process for the August 2023 harmonised elections.
The CCC, born in January 2022, operated without established structures or founding documents, setting the stage for its eventual implosion post-general elections on August 23-24.
A faction led by Mr. Sengezo Tshabangu executed a series of recalls, backed by judiciary rulings that seemingly handed Tshabangu control of the party.
Chamisa’s subsequent 13-page resignation document, citing the CCC as ‘contaminated,’ left many wondering whether this move was a strategic maneuver or a surrender. In this article, I offer my opinion on part of the problem and what it means.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesman George Charamba has urged the government to take over the running of the City of Harare claiming “infighting” in the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party was affecting service delivery.
The group that includes CCC Deputy Spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba and Organising Secretary Amos Chibaya will not be on the ballot after High Court judge Pisirai Kwenda ruled on Friday that they cannot contest under the same party that recalled them.
Self-imposed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu has set up an interim leadership structure that is mobilising members ahead of his party’s national congress to elect a substantive leadership.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s lawyer Advocate Lewis Uriri provided free legal services to Sengezo Tshabangu, the self-proclaimed Interim Secretary General of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC).
By Brighton Mutebuka
Via his proxy, Sengezo Tshabangu, President Emmerson Mnangagwa (ED) has brazenly reconfigured Zimbabwe’s Parliament pursuant to attaining a two-thirds majority which will in turn act as a prelude to removing Presidential term limits and open doors to a tilt at life presidency.
In the same vein, he has turned elections into a routine sham, thereby totally delegitimising them as a tool to facilitate a democratic and constitutional change of government.
It is a watershed moment. There is no sane Zimbabwean who will continue to retain faith in the power of elections to express the democratic and sovereign will of the people to deliver change after this charade.
There will be many who will lay the blame squarely on the shoulders of Zimbabwe’s beleaguered opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa and his party, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) for allowing this to happen but in essence, the reality is simply that they were literally outgunned and out manoeuvred by a desperately ruthless, determined and shameless opponent.
By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka
Sengezo Tshabangu’s surrogate antics culminated in last week’s night judgement that barred CCC candidates from participating in the contrived by-elections, all in a dastardly nocturnal move that cemented ED’s reputation as the uglier version of one Robert Mugabe, the man he deposed in a coup under the false mantra of unveiling a new dispensation.
ED has now firmly etched his place in history for his witchy politics hatched in dark-hour plots and conspiracies against the citizens and their right to free political expression.
ED’s love for nocturnal and uncouth political adventures began with a midnight coup early November 2017 in which soldiers besieged Mugabe’s ‘Blue Roof’ mansion in Borrowdale, Harare, in the dead of the night and put him under house arrest.
Though they afforded him the drama of pretence by allowing him to preside over civilian functions such as attending a graduation ceremony as a chancellor of the Zimbabwe Open University, the nocturnal characters had already taken charge.
Mugabe simply became the main tragic character in that well-choreographed drama series.
Last week, the unelectable Mnangagwa yet again showcased his love for dark-hour plots and his phobia of elections by allowing his Zanu PF candidates to stroll into Parliament by heinously shutting out legitimate competition.
He used the captured judiciary to deliver a highly political judgement in the middle of the night.