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Former Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Arthur Mutambara, has expressed regret about the failure of the opposition to push for political and electoral reforms during the Government of National Unity (GNU). Speaking in an interview with Alpha Media Holdings Chairman, Trevor Ncube, Mutambara highlighted the importance of carrying out political and electoral reforms during the GNU and lamented that they failed to deliver on this agenda. Mutambara said:
<blockquote>
Some serious regrets. A key part of the agenda of the GNU was carrying out political reforms, electoral reforms. Zero out of 100. We failed to deliver political reforms we failed to deliver electoral reforms. That’s why the terrain is still problematic, because of our failure. We were very keen on delivering on the economy, the constitution, that we didn’t think about the post-GNU. What are we going to do post-GNU? We were so naive to the extent that we spent a lot of time doing good work on the economy, good work, constitution was another product we did okay but we failed to plan for the post-GNU in the sense that ZANU PF was working for us to be offloaded in 2013 and then continue on their own. So that post-GNU lack of planning was a failure and the issue of political reforms was a failure.
</blockquote>
Asked why the GNU government failed to implement political reforms, Mutambara said:
<blockquote>
A coalition government is never the best way to run a country. It was a team of rivals and there has to be agreement on many things and ZANU PF was not interested in political reforms. Well, we didn’t try hard enough, but also it was a difficult exercise because it was a team of rivals where agreement was required for the implementation of those political reforms, but failure nontheless.
</blockquote>
Mutambara also highlighted some of the successes of the GNU which include stabilising the economy following a 2008 hyperinflation. 
The Government of National Unity (GNU) in Zimbabwe was a coalition government formed in 2009 between three political parties: ZANU-PF, MDC-T, and MDC-M. The GNU was formed following the disputed 2008 elections and aimed to address Zimbabwe’s political and economic challenges. The GNU had three principals, one from each of the three political parties in the coalition government. They were: Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe and the leader of the ruling party ZANU-PF; Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe and the leader of the opposition party MDC-T, and Arthur Mutambara, Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe and the leader of the MDC-M, a breakaway faction of the MDC-T.
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Mutambara Regrets Opposition's Failure To Push For Political Reforms During GNU

The Zimbabwean government has reportedly sold the late former <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">Prime Minister</a> Morgan Tsvangirai’s Highlands house to his widow, Elizabeth Macheka after it had previously appeared to be willing to let the family have the house for free as part of his pension.
Although the government had originally wanted US$1.8 million for the house, it is understood that Tsvangirai’s widow negotiated and paid about US$1.5 million.
The house was initially bought by the government and allocated to Tsvangirai after he had boycotted the government in 2009 arguing that the house was not suitable for a Prime Minister. The issue caused controversy, with accusations that the late <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">opposition leader</a> had double-dipped during the process.
Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga visited Tsvangirai at the house in January 2018 – a month before he died – and subsequently the government assured his family it would not be evicted. At the time Mnangagwa’s spokesman George Charamba said:
<blockquote>
Was he not a prime minister, why would he be evicted? And he retired under a constitution that recognised his office.
</blockquote>
Following Mnangagwa’s visit to Tsvangirai’s official residence, the late former <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">Prime Minister</a> left for <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">South Africa</a> for medical check-ups, with part of his medical bills paid for by the government. Unfortunately, he passed away on 14 February 2018 in Johannesburg due to colon cancer.
According to reports by The <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">News Hawks</a>, two weeks after his death, Mnangagwa wrote to Tsvangirai’s widow, technically taking control of the house and offering to sell it to her.
Elizabeth Tsvangirai clarified that she bought the property after her husband’s death as it belonged to the state until that time, and they were government tenants. She confirmed that they were offered to buy the house at market value, which they did exercise as per their right of first refusal.
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Govt Sold Tsvangirai's House To Widow Elizabeth Macheka

Former <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Zimbabwe_National_Students_Union">Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU)</a> spokesperson, Tatenda ‘Zuj’ Mandondo has deserted the opposition <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Citizens%27_Coalition_for_Change">Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)</a> led by <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Nelson_Chamisa">Nelson Chamisa</a> and joined the ruling ZANU PF.
Mndondo described the CCC as a sinking ship which lacks seriousness.
He was part of scores of “deserters” unveiled and welcomed into the ruling party fold by President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the weekend. Mandondo spoke to <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/chamisas-ccc-a-sinking-ship-says-former-zinasu-leader-after-shock-move-to-zanu-pf/">NewZimbabwe</a>:
<blockquote>
We all have choices and decisions to make in life that are necessary for national development and unity of purpose and for them to scrutinise thoroughly their continued stay in a sinking ship.
My decision to join Zanu-PF was made of full body and mind inspired by the need to assist in the National framework and be part of a collaborative and unified political outfit that does not exhibit traits of chaos, confusion and despondency.
The opposition lacks seriousness in its approach and is the lone voice of a lone man or elite individuals, however, with ZANU PF you easily understand the command structure and still have your voice considered and your efforts acknowledged.
The issue with some pressure groups masquerading as political parties is regrettable as they lack proper substance to capacitate the masses they claim to lead, they do not provide opportunities, the democracy narrative being toyed around with has shifted dramatically and drastically from the days of the late former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and if they continue on their self-destructive path they will soon be a mere memory on the horizon.
</blockquote>
Mandondo was unveiled as a new member alongside late MDC founding President Morgan Tsvangirai’s brother Collins, who was coming from the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC Alliance.
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Former ZINASU Leader Defects From CCC To ZANU PF

President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Saturday welcomed hundreds of former opposition supporters who defected to ZANU PF including Collins Tsvangirai, the brother of the late MDC founding president Morgan Tsvangirai who died on Valentine’s Day in 2018.
Mnangagwa received the new members as part of ZANU PF’s “Huyai Kumusha Come Home Buyanini Ekhaya Muze Kumunzi” event held at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) on Saturday.
Tsvangirai, former MDC MP for Masvingo Urban Tongai Matutu, former Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) spokesperson Tatenda Mandondo, former MDC MP for Kwekwe Central Blessing Chebundo, and former MDC Alliance Deputy Treasurer General Lillian Timveous were among them who were welcomed to ZANU PF.
Tsvangirai’s defection from the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC Alliance was confirmed last week while Chebundo and Timveous defected to ZANU PF a few years ago.
Addressing the gathering, Mnangagwa said ZANU PF structures should prepare themselves for an influx of former opposition supporters. <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/https-www-newzimbabwe-com-mnangagwa-welcomes-former-opposition-supporters-to-zanu-pf-including-late-opposition-icon-morgan-tsvangirais-brother/">NewZimbabwe.com</a> quoted Mnangagwa as saying:
<blockquote>
Go and tell people that the revolution is ongoing and unstoppable. ZANU PF chitima chakafanana nenzou inongopfuura pamusha ichingo famba ichingo famba.
Under ZANU PF there is no small idea that is excluded from helping to uplift our people.
No one is more important than the other. Iye waunoshora anofema mweya waunofema.
</blockquote>

Mnangagwa Welcomes Collins Tsvangirai To ZANU PF

A breakaway group from the opposition MDC-T held a press conference in Harare this Thursday during which they denounced MDC-T leader Senator <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Douglas_Mwonzora">Douglas Mwonzora.</a>
The group which consists of some senior opposition leaders including Engineer Elias Mudzuri, says it is aggrieved by many issues including a “shambolic” national congress.
MDC-T last month suspended Mudzuri, Norest Marara, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Gift_Konjana">Gift Konjana</a>, John Nyika, Den Moyo, Edwin Dzambara, and Edwin Kakora allegedly for breaking party rules, having illegal meetings, and undermining the democratic procedures of the organisation.
Watch the video below for more:
During the presser, the group said since the passing of <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Movement_for_Democratic_Change">MDC’</a>s founding leader, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Morgan_Tsvangirai">Morgan Tsvangirai</a>, the party degenerated into chaos and lost its ethos and values.
Addressing the media, Mudzuri said the party was violating the principles of democracy.
He said the national congress led by Mwonzora is null and void as it did not follow the MDC-T constitution. 
Mudzuri said his group seeks to restore order in the MDC-T party. He said consultations with all structures of the party are in the process in a bid to map a way forward for the party. 
Asked why the electorate should trust a party that is going through a leadership crisis a few months before the election, Mudzuri said members of the MDC were not ready for any election. He said members were not consulted when a congress meant to choose their representatives were chosen. 
He said they intend to build proper and vibrant structures.
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MDC-T Break Away Addresses A Press Conference

Glen View South Member of Parliament, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Vincent_Tsvangirai">Vincent Tsvangirai</a>, has said he has not left the MDC-T but is just ashamed to be associated with what was done by party leader <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Douglas_Mwonzora">Douglas Mwonzora.</a>
Tsvangirai is the son of <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Morgan_Tsvangirai">Morgan Tsvangirai</a> the late founding leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
In an interview with <a href="https://openparly.com/i-have-not-left-mdc-t-i-am-just-ashamed-of-what-happened-says-vincent-tsvangirai/">Open Parly</a>, Tsvangirai said if Mwonzora is still the party leader, he will see out his term but will not contest in 2023. He said:
<blockquote>
The national council that took place on the 20th of November in my opinion was a shame and a disgrace to democracy and what MDC stands for. In my opinion, it was what may be considered what breaks the camel’s back.
The MDC in its acronym is democracy, to say what took place was democratic, should be rejected by anyone who believes in democratic practices.
I have not left MDC, I love my party, but I am ashamed of my leader, and I did not think that Douglas Mwonzora would go to that extent to preserve his position.
Those who are in the MDC who are genuine about the struggle and what the MDC stands for should reject and utterly shame the process that took place on the 20th.
I will serve out the rest of my term and don’t think I will contest in 2023 under the presidency of Douglas Mwonzora. My principles will not allow it and I cannot go to the people and say please vote for us we want to deliver change in this country and democracy when we are not practicing it ourselves.
We must lead by example and then go to the people and request their support because we believe in what we are fighting for, but what we did on Sunday was nothing that we can go to the people and say we stand for this. That is my opinion I cannot recognize such a process.
</blockquote>
Tsvangirai added that the MDC-T has failed to adhere to its own constitution, something which triggered a leadership crisis in the party in 2018. 
His remarks come after an MDC-T national council meeting allegedly endorsed Mwonzora as party leader ahead of the 5th congress.
The same meeting also endorsed Mwonzora as the party’s candidate for the 2023 Presidential elections allegedly without following proper procedure.
Tsvangirai said Mwonzora failed or neglected to ensure a secret ballot and that could have intimidated other aspiring candidates.
He added that other aspiring candidates were not aware that there was going to be voting, and the people who were supposed to vote were also not aware of the process.
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"I Have Not Left MDC, I Love My Party" - Vincent Tsvangirai

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for political tolerance among politicians ahead of the 2023 elections.
He made the call while delivering his State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the new multimillion-dollar six-story Parliament building gifted by China. He said:
<blockquote>
Political players, seeking the people’s mandate during the upcoming 2023 elections must maintain and consolidate the peace, unity, harmony and love that we have built under the second republic. Violent confrontations have never been part of our culture.
</blockquote>
Zimbabwe is scheduled to hold harmonised elections sometime in 2023.
Reports of intra-party and interparty violence have been rising since March this year when by-elections were held for several posts that were vacant.
The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change led by Nelson Chamisa, a former Minister of ICT, Postal and Courier Services claims that the ruling ZANU PF has been attacking and murdering its people to intimidate them ahead of elections.
One of the unresolved cases is that of slain CCC activist <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Moreblessing_Ali">Moreblessing Ali</a> who was abducted and killed earlier this year.
Her remains are yet to be buried amid reports that her family is in hiding following threats from suspected ZANU PF members.
Mnangagwa’s remarks come after some of his lieutenants, including former Minister of State Security, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Owen_Ncube">Owen Ncube</a>, threatened that <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/owen-ncube-threatens-worse-than-2008-political-violence-against-sell-outs/">2023 could be worse than 2008.</a>
In 2008, the ruling ZANU PF in collaboration with state security forces allegedly attacked and killed several opposition MDC members in the run-up to the run-off election.
Analysts have warned the 2023 poll could be one of the disputed elections if violence continues to escalate.
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SONA: President Mnangagwa Calls For Political Tolerance Ahead Of 2023 Elections

The <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Zimbabwe_Republic_Police">Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)</a> has dismissed reports which say <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Thokozani_Khupe">Thokozani Khupe</a>, a former Deputy Prime Minister during the Government of National Unity (GNU) had been arrested. In a statement seen by Pindula News, ZRP said the reports were totally false. Reads the statement:
<blockquote>
<h2>FALSE REPORT ON ALLEGED ARREST OF THOKOZANI KHUPE</h2>
The Zimbabwe Republic Police dismisses a story circulating on Newsdzezimbabwe.co.uk, CITE and other social media platforms linked to Citizen Coalition for Change Bulawayo’s Swithern Chirowodza that Dr. Thokozani Khupe and other CCC activists were arrested as totally false. 
The Police has not effected any arrest on Khupe and associates. The false story is dismissed with the contempt it deserves. It is totally wrong for politicians to claim arrest by Zimbabwe Republic Police in false circumstances.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police, in actual fact impounded a South African registered Toyota Hilux registration number JW15PT GP belonging to Joubert Maplanka (64) for failure to produce a valid Temporary Import Permit at the 98km peg along Bulawayo- Plumtree Road.
The vehicle has been in Zimbabwe since July 2021 and the TIP is no longer valid. Thokozani Khupe later came aboard a different vehicle and was not arrested at all.
We continue to urge journalists to verify information obtained from purported reliable sources before publishing such stories. 
(NYATHI. P) Assistant Commissioner 
Senior Staff Officer [Press and Public Relations] To the Commissioner General of Police 
Police General Headquarters
</blockquote>
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ZRP Dismiss Reports Saying Former Deputy Prime Minister Khupe Was Arrested

Harare mayor Jacob Mafume on Monday called for the recognition of the late MDC founding president Morgan Tsvangirai as a national hero for the role he played in the democratisation of Zimbabwe.
Tsvangirai, who was the Prime Minister during the Government of National Unity (GNU) era (2009-2013), died on 14 February 2018 after battling colon cancer and was buried at Humanikwa Village in Buhera.
Mafume, who is the councillor for Mt Pleasant Ward 17 (CCC), said that there is no doubt that Tsvangirai should be granted national hero status. He said:
<blockquote>
There are some heroes who are yet to be recognised, like Morgan Tsvangirai. They need formal status, heroes who did a lot for the democratisation of this country, heroes who did a lot to accept that we can belong to different parties but still be one nation.
We have no quarrel with the sacrifices made by (Josiah) Tongogara. Neither do we have any quarrel with the sacrifices made by Herbert Chitepo, (Ndabaningi) Sithole and the many other young people who sacrificed their lives for our independence and liberation.
If they respect us, we respect them. If they honour us, we honour them, and that is how a nation should be.
</blockquote>
On Monday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/mnangagwa-declares-ndabaningi-sithole-chikerema-national-heroes/">said that the late nationalists Ndabaningi Sithole and James Chikerema will be honoured among the country’s heroes and heroines</a> “despite their areas of weaknesses”.
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/morgan-tsvangirai-deserves-national-hero-status-mayor/">NewZimbabwe.com</a>

Morgan Tsvangirai Deserves National Hero Status - Harare Mayor

The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has remembered victims of the violence that preceded the 2008 presidential re-run election which the Nelson Chamisa-led party blames on the ruling ZANU PF.
Many people were tortured and or killed while some lost their homes as the ruling ZANU PF’s campaign dubbed “27 June VaMugabe muOffice” was implemented by ZANU PF’s Border Gezi-trained Greenbombers, state security forces and war veterans. 
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader, the late Morgan Tsvangirai, pulled out of the presidential race following violence against his supporters. Pindula News presents the CCC’s Twitter thread – #Remembering27JuneVictims:
<blockquote>
Today, the 27th of June, we remember the opposition members who were murdered, tortured and maimed in 2008 on account of politics
 The violent attacks on the opposition members by suspected Zanu PF thugs took place after the late Dr Richard Morgan Tsvangirai had resoundingly won the March 2008 presidential elections against the late Robert Mugabe. 
This electoral outcome threatened to bring Robert Mugabe’s grip on power since independence to an abrupt end. The opposition, for the first time since independence, also took control of parliament.
The regime through the abuse of the state institutions particularly ZEC released a tampered election result outcome after a very long time, and subsequently resulted in a rerun.
In a callous effort to reverse the presidential election result, suspected Zanu PF unleashed terror and violence against opposition members.
According to the ZEC results which took more than a month to be released, Morgan Tsvangirai of the MDCT garnered 47.9 % of the total vote to upstage Robert Mugabe of ZANU-PF who allegedly garnered 43.7 % of the total vote.
A re-run was ordered to take place on the 27th of June 2008 to determine a winner. The 27th of June 2008 would become the rerun date. 
Before the re-run could take place, politically motivated violence broke out across the country which left more than 200 opposition supporters dead, over 200 reported cases of  rape, destruction of property and livestock and over 20000 people displaced. 
</blockquote>
The election was widely contested and rejected by the international community. After several talks mediated by South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki, ZANU PF and two MDC formations formed a <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Government_of_National_Unity">Government of National Unity (GNU)</a>.
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CCC Remembers Victims Of "27 June VaMugabe MuOffice" Re-run

<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Ibbo_Mandaza">Dr Ibbo Mandaza</a>, a politician, academic and businessman who is also the director of a local think-tank Sapes Trust has said it is difficult to revive the Zimbabwean economy with about 75 per cent of the skilled people living in the diaspora.
Brain drain worsened at the turn of the millennium when the economy collapsed. Skilled personnel continue to leave the country en masse, at every chance, citing poor salaries and working conditions.
Speaking at the memorial service of the late Law expert, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Alex_Magaisa">Alex Tawanda Magaisa</a>, a former Chief of Staff in the office of the late former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Morgan_Tsvangirai">Morgan Tsvangirai</a>, Mandaza said Zimbabwe has been overtaken by its African counterparts. He said:
<blockquote>
75% of Zimbabwe’s skilled people are outside the country, and Alex was one of them. We can’t lift this country out of this mess without those people. Tanzania is now 40 years ahead of Zimbabwe. Kenya is 10 times ahead of us.
</blockquote>
Many Zimbabweans scattered around the globe are taking influential positions in various companies and governments while Zimbabwe is struggling.
Some analysts blame the ruling ZANU PF for the brain drain saying the party was responsible for the collapse of the economy. 
Econet Wireless founder, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Strive_Masiyiwa">Strive Masiyiwa</a>, a former <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Posts_and_Telecommunications_Corporation_of_Zimbabwe">PTC</a> employee, leads a legion of skilled Zimbabweans living in the diaspora.
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We Can't Lift Zimbabwe With 75% Of Skilled People In The Diaspora - Ibbo Mandaza

ZANU PF spokesperson, Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa said they protected Zimbabwe’s founding leader, the late Robert Mugabe from persecution from the “country’s enemies” and later “dealt with” him in “a very surgical manner.”
Mugabe who resigned in 2017 after the citizenry marched demanding his ouster, later claimed that year that he resigned under duress amid reports that the army had him under house arrest. 
Just before Mugabe resigned, the late Morgan Tsvangirai, a former Prime Minister (2009 to 2013) and former leader of the opposition MDC addressed thousands of people gathered outside the Parliament building where he urged Mugabe to “step down immediately to avoid impeachment”.
Mugabe resigned before he was impeached.
Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa on Thursday told HStv, a digital television station run by Alpha Media Holdings that Tsvangirai played a crucial role in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ascendancy. He said:
<blockquote>
We kept Mugabe in office when the threat was from the West. You do not open your armpits when the enemy is at the gate. So when we saw that there was a chance to deal with Mugabe we dealt with Mugabe in a very surgical manner where even themselves (opposition) became part of that process.
We built a broad, united front and it is also to their credit that for a change there was wisdom just that the wisdom died with the demise of Tsvangirai then afterwards the party was afflicted with its usual falling to the Western countries.
</blockquote>
At the time, Tsvangirai is alleged to have lobbied Western diplomats to play down Mugabe’s ouster, which he described as a citizens’ doing, and embrace Mnangagwa. 
Tsvangirai succumbed to cancer of the colon in South Africa in February 2018.
More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2022/04/zanu-pf-exposes-tsvangirai-role-in-coup/">NewsDay Zimbabwe</a>

"We Dealt With Mugabe In A Very Surgical Manner" - Mutsvangwa Speaks On Tsvangirai's Role

Opposition <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Citizens%27_Coalition_for_Change">Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC)</a> interim president, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Nelson_Chamisa">Nelson Chamisa</a>, has said he was endorsed by many founding leaders of Zimbabwe, the living and the departed to be the president of the Republic of Zimbabwe.
Chamisa, a former Minister of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services (ICTPCS), made the remarks while addressing CCC supporters at a rally held on Sunday at Mkoba, Gweru. He said: 
<blockquote>
(<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Dumiso_Dabengwa">Dumiso) Dabengwa</a> endorsed me, Save (<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Morgan_Tsvangirai">Morgan Tsvangirai</a>) endorsed me, (former President <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Robert_Mugabe">Robert) Mugabe</a> endorsed me. Until the anointed one is on the throne, Zimbabwe will not have peace, the economy won’t stabilise.
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He said the CCC is the only hope and solution to the country’s economic, humanitarian and political crises.
CCC was formed in 2022 after MDC-T leader, Senator <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Douglas_Mwonzora">Douglas Mwonzora</a> claimed ownership of the MDC Alliance, a name that was also being used by the party that was being led by Chamisa. 
Chamisa said if he is elected president in 2023, he and the CCC government will restore the dignity of all civil servants including teachers, nurses, doctors, and other government workers.  
His remarks come as government workers have periodically clashed with authorities in the past two years over poor working conditions and paltry salaries. 
In the midst of ululations and whistles from supporters, Chamisa said he will defeat President <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Emmerson_Mnangagwa">Emmerson Mnangagwa</a> and force him to go into retirement. He added:
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If anyone wins, we will congratulate him, but there is no party in Zimbabwe that can beat us. Victory is certain.
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He also denounced violence adding that his party’s main weapon was the mind. 
Chamisa said there will be no rigging of elections “this time” as he has informers at several government institutions including the <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Zimbabwe_Electoral_Commission">Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)</a> which has often been accused of conniving with the ruling ZANU PF to manipulate election outcomes. 
Chamisa also said ZANU PF does not own the country adding that fighting in the liberation struggle does not make the country its property. He added that every citizen contributed to the independence of Zimbabwe in one way or the other. 
<h2>More: <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a></h2>

Dabengwa, Tsvangirai, Mugabe, Everyone, Endorsed Me - Chamisa

Alex Tawanda Magaisa, a law lecturer in the United Kingdom, has discussed the Trojan Horse theory, prompting some to believe he was warning opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) against accepting Thokozani Khupe in the party.
Magaisa, a former Chief of Staff in the office of a former Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, speaks amid disagreements in the CCC over whether to have a coalition with Khupe who was recently fired from the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora.
Some say Khupe, once Tsvangirai’s deputy and a former Deputy Prime Minister, cannot be trusted since she “joined hands with the ruling ZANU PF” to dismantle MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa. Some say she has a lot to contribute adding that many former ZANU PF members have been admitted into the party in the past.
Magaisa says things regarded as Trojan Horses are weapons disguised as gifts. Pindula News presents Magaisa’s remarks below:
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<h2>Trojan Horse</h2>
1. “Be wary of Greeks bearing gifts” The adage originates from a legend in Greek mythology. The legend is drawn from a tale in Homer’s famous poem, The Iliad which describes the end of a long-drawn war between the Greeks and the Trojans in ancient times. The lesson is timeless.
2. The war had been going on for nearly a decade with the Greeks laying siege upon Troy, the of the Trojans, but to no avail. With both sides exhausted, the Greeks built a large wooden horse, which they left at the gates of Troy, seemingly as a peace offering.
3. The Greeks appeared to sail away in retreat. When the Trojans saw the wooden horse, they thought it was a sign of surrender &amp; a peace offering. They opened the gates of their city and took the horse inside and celebrations began. After all, the war was over, wasn’t it?
4. But the Trojans didn’t know it was a trick. Greek soldiers were hiding inside the belly of the large wooden horse. And by bringing it into their city, the Trojans had allowed their bitter enemy inside. And the Greeks had entered the Trojans’ citadel without even fighting.
5. So as the Trojans dropped their guard, the Greek soldiers came out of the horse and opened the gates of Troy to allow in their compatriots who were lurking outside. They entered Troy and won an easy victory. According to the legend, that is how the Trojans were defeated.
6. Over time, when something was referred to as “a Trojan Horse”, it was because it was a weapon that was disguised as a gift. The Roman poet, Virgil is credited with coining the phrase, “Be wary of Greeks bearing gifts” in his account of the legend of the Trojan War.
7. When people say beware of the Greeks bearing gifts, they are warning you to be careful because sometimes things that are presented as gifts can turn out to be your greatest undoing. Not everything that glitters is gold. Observe carefully who the promoters of that gift are.
8. There will be offers of gifts and it’s hard to resist the allure. But these gifts may also be weapons in disguise. You cannot afford to behave like the Trojans. Before you bring the horse through the city gates, be sure that it is not carrying the opponent’s troops inside.
WaMagaisa
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<h2>More: <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a></h2>

Be Wary Of Greeks Bearing Gifts - Alex Magaisa

The opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) says its leadership is in danger, with the party leader <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Nelson_Chamisa">Nelson Chamisa</a> saying several attempts have been made on their lives. 
Only this Thursday, <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/armed-men-raid-bitis-home-security-aide-seriously-injured/">unknown assailants attacked</a> CCC senior official <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Tendai_Biti">Tendai Biti</a>’s house and physically assaulted his mother and security guard, seriously injuring them in the process.
Reasons for the attack were not immediately given, but Chamisa this week said there is a plot to attack the party leadership and warned them to be on high alert. He said:
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It’s only that we don’t say much and the people who were doing this are the people who have been making attempts on our lives. They were celebrating that we poisoned him when he was in Botswana, I don’t normally eat but it shows you wicked people who believe in eliminating elements.
We have told all our leaders, all our candidates that please eat with a lot of care, it is good to have appetite but control your appetite. Be careful, not everything is food, we are in a dangerous zone. Be careful about your cars, just last night they sideswiped our car.
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Chamisa told The NewsHawks this week that the state killed former Prime Minister, the late <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Morgan_Tsvangirai">Morgan Tsvangirai</a> who succumbed to cancer on 14 February 2018. 
There has been a rise in reported cases of intra-party and inter-party political violence across the country since 2020. This is happening as the country is preparing for 26 March 2022 by-elections and 2023 harmonised elections. 
Zimbabwe has in the past experienced political violence before, during and after elections, a situation that undermined polls’ credibility.
More: <a href="https://thenewshawks.com/they-want-us-dead-chamisa/">The NewsHawks</a>

They Thought They Had Poisoned Us - CCC Leader Nelson Chamisa

President <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Emmerson_Mnangagwa">Emmerson Mnangagwa</a> has said the youths of his generation <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Chimurenga">used the gun to liberate Zimbabwe from British rule</a> but the contemporary youths need to use their vote to safeguard that independence. 
He made the remarks while addressing youth and delegates who were attending the <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/National_Youth_Day_(Zimbabwe)_-_21_February">Robert Mugabe National Youth Day</a> celebrations held at <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Robert_Mugabe">Robert Mugabe</a> Square, in Harare on Monday.
He reiterated the ruling ZANU PF’s claims that the opposition, “a puppet of the West” intended to reverse the gains made since the attainment of independence hence the need to vote the ruling party “which has the nation’s interests at heart”.
Mnangagwa’s remarks spell a departure from the party’s position, however, in the sense that he believes that votes can influence the political trajectory of the Southern African country.
ZANU PF officials, living and the departed, including the late former President Robert Mugabe, used to say votes will not guarantee victory.
Mugabe is on record openly declaring with regards to elections that “the gun is mightier than the pen”.
In 2008, the late former Prime Minister, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Morgan_Tsvangirai">Morgan Tsvangirai</a> defeated ZANU PFcandidate, Mugabe, but could not get to the State House as the <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Zimbabwe_Electoral_Commission">Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)</a> claimed that he had not attained the required 50 plus 1 per cent of the votes cast.
<a href="http://pindula.co.zw/2008_Presidential_Elections">A rerun was held</a> during which scores of opposition MDC members were assaulted and or killed by ZANU PF youths, War Veterans and members of the security sector, mainly the army.
However, by Mugabe’s own accidental admission which is on record, Tsvangirai probably won the first round of the 2008 presidential elections with 73%. ZEC took 5 weeks to announce the official result, now down to 47.9% for Tsvangirai. 
There have been reports that the ruling ZANU PF connives with ZEC and other state departments to manipulate the electoral process to prevent the transfer of power to the opposition. 
Zimbabwe is gearing towards March 26 by-elections and 2023 harmonised elections with political analysts doubtful that the ruling party will be prepared to handover power in the event that it loses the elections.
<h2>More: <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a></h2>

We Used Guns To Bring Independence, Use Your Vote To Safeguard It - Mnangagwa

ZANU PF has described the late veteran trade unionist and opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, as “a national institution” and “beacon of democracy”.
Tsvangirai died aged 65 at a South African hospital on 14 February 2018 after a long battle with colon cancer.
Addressing a Press conference in Harare on Monday, 14 February 2022, ZANU PF spokesperson Chris Mutsvangwa said:
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Tsvangirai was a national institution and his name and the MDC party were equally a beacon for the fight in Zimbabwe for what is just and what is democratic, now the name disappears in history, now Tsvangirai is gone, replaced by Chete Chete Chete and the name MDC is gone too, finished just like that can you imagine.
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Nelson Chamisa, who succeeded Tsvangirai as MDC-T leader under controversial circumstances in 2018 but now leads Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) said on Twitter:
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A giant, a mentor, a fighter, a democrat and a confidante — this day you exited this life.
They are still trying those old tactics they used against you. They will not succeed. The struggle is in safe hands. Sadly missed. Rest in power mudhara (old man).
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CCC national spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere said that they will ensure that Tsvangirai’s dream of attaining a democratic Zimbabwe will be fulfilled. She said:
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This is the best honour we can give to his legacy. We will not allow the regime to consume or use us to fight the will of the people.
We will ensure that we complete the mission of attaining a democratic Zimbabwe. One day, Zimbabwe will be free.
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The spokesperson for the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe, Ntando Ndlovu described Tsvangirai as a man of the people. Ndlovu said:
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There is no debate that Tsvangirai deserves his own space in the national narrative for the significant role he played in shaping the country’s post-liberation politics.
We remember him as a leader who was able to listen to everyone regardless of their social status. He was, indeed, a man of the people.
We implore all pro-democracy forces to form a united front to remove Zanu PF from power. 
That is the tribute that we can give to our late departed leader.
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Tsvangirai was named Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister in 2009 after protracted negotiations with then president, the late Robert Mugabe.
The Government of National Unity that was formed following a Global Political Agreement (GPA) helped to bring political and economic stability to the country.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2022/02/tsvangirai-a-beacon-of-democracy-zanu-pf/">NewsDay</a></h4>

Tsvangirai Was A National Institution - ZANU PF

Opposition <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Movement_for_Democratic_Change">MDC-T</a> led by Senator <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Douglas_Mwonzora">Douglas Mwonzora</a> has announced that it will this afternoon host an annual lecture in remembrance of former Prime Minister, the late <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Morgan_Tsvangirai">Morgan Tsvangirai</a> who succumbed to cancer on the 14th of February in 2018.
Tsvangirai was a founding member of the <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/MDC">Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)</a>, a party he led from 1999 when it was formed until 2018 when he died. In a statement, the party said:
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President Morgan Tsvangirai passed away on 14 February 2018. Honouring his memory, we will host the annual Morgan Tsvangirai Memorial Lecture at MRT House tomorrow (Monday). We shall forever preserve his legacy.
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Another opposition party, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Citizens%27_Coalition_for_Change">Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)</a>, which morphed from <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/MDC_Alliance">MDC Alliance</a> early this year, described Tsvangirai as a champion of democracy. 
CCC which is led by <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Nelson_Chamisa">Nelson Chamisa</a>, a former Minister of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services (GNU era) said:
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On this day, 14 February 2018 we lost a champion for democracy in Zimbabwe, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai. We remember his contribution to the struggle and we will ensure that we complete the mission. May he rest in power.
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Morgan Tsvangirai’s political career began with his election as the Secretary-General of the national trade unions umbrella body. During this period, the movement criticised the government’s failure to improve the lives of the workers and this placed Tsvangirai in the political limelight. 
Tsvangirai had earlier on joined active politics in 1987 and 1989 after leading a series of strikes against the <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Zanu-PF" title="Zanu-PF">ZANU-PF</a> government’s tax increases when he was the <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Zimbabwe_Congress_of_Trade_Unions" title="Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions">Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions</a> Secretary-General.
<h2>More: <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a></h2>

Opposition Parties Remember Former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai

MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has taken to social media to detail what the opposition has achieved since its formation in the late 90s.
Sharing a picture of him and the MDC founding father Morgan Tsvangirai, on Facebook, the firebrand politician said they have remained strong over the years and they are still standing 2 decades later before adding that it is difficult to fight a dictatorship with open arms.
Said Chamisa:
<blockquote>Our BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT over the years has been to remain standing &amp; keeping the fight for real change. It’s not easy to fight dictatorship only with open palms, bare hands and on the platform of peace. We are not ashamed of our non-violence path to the future.
Waging a consistent fight for freedom, democracy &amp; transformation is a major score and no mean achievement. We have a solid vision, clear policies, precise goals and effective strategies…After the persecution, trials, betrayals and tribulations victory kicks in. Victory is certain! It’s coming.</blockquote>
This comes after some people have started stating that the youthful politician has no strategy to defeat the current administration adding that he has been silent while the Khupe led faction is recalling legislators and councilors and he has no strategy to stop the faction which according to them is working together with the government to silence him. Chamisa during his<a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/12/06/taking-our-party-wont-break-us-chamisa/"> mother’s memorial service early this month said silence is also a strategy</a>.
Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/214311738700136/posts/2180758682055422/">Facebook</a>

Its Not Easy To Fight Dictatorship With Open Arms - Chamisa

A UK based academic Dr David Matsanga has said sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe are now an economic warfare fashioned to kill Zimbabwe. The opinionist called Nelson Chamisa Tsvangirai’s later day puppy and said Tsvangirai had despotic tendencies that caused an upheaval in Zimbabwe. Matsanga also said the opposition is running powerplays as directed by their Western sympathizers, and according to him it is causing the majority of Zimbabwean to suffer.
Urging the American government to be tolerant to President Mnangagwa, Matsanga opined:
<blockquote>THE sanctions imposed by the West on Zimbabwe, are no longer about inculcating good governance and freedoms but a tactless, miscalculated economic warfare, fashioned to ‘kill’ Zimbabwe.
Curiously, at the center of this ugly theatre of a blistering neocolonial attack by western imperialists, are their minions, and house negros right inside Zimbabwe beguiled as opposition, civil society, and queer diplomats.
Some of these crazed diplomats, like the USA ambassador Brian Nichols, behave as if Zimbabwe is a province, colony, or protectorate of the United States of America.
Instead of promoting good bilateral relations between Washington, and Zimbabwe; loquacious Nichols has been going around verbally torching everywhere; inciting lawlessness, funding anti-government protests, and spreading fake news, and directly meddling in Zimbabwe domestic affairs against laid down protocols embodied in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (VCDR), and in multilateral and bilateral treaties.
The paradox of it all is that this unbecoming behavior of Nichols comes at a time the government of the USA, is warning foreign missions and foreign countries from interfering in its domestic affairs including elections! Whatever happened to the old wisdom; what’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.
Importantly, President Mnangagwa has tried so so much on the issue of institutional reforms to conform with human rights, it’s not like Zimbabwe is the USA where blacks still live like second-class humans under the crushing yokes of subjugation; where racism is enough reason for police to shoot a black man and worse still send him to prison for many years purely on the implicit black bias. In the USA jails are one million African Americans, for deadpan that would not land any white man inside a Zimbabwean in jail.
The kind of lynching, the world was bizarrely treated to in the case of Goerge Floyd are things that don’t happen in Zimbabwe, and Mr. Nichols and his fellow Western diplomats should appreciate it.
You don’t punish a man for trying, it’s sinful. President Mnangagwa is doing everything to ensure Zimbabwe becomes great again.
These crippling ever-evolving sanctions imposed in 2001, against President Robert Mugabe and grandees in his government initially was about the timely land resettlement program; but the goal has kept shifting base on every deliberate lie and beer parlor gossip.
President Mnangagwa has even offered to compensate formerly uprooted white settlers, with land and capital; something that would never happen in Western Countries against their minority populations; but still, the sanction screw is being tightened.
Sample the case of the Chagossians in British courts, the British government vowed in 2019 not to return Chagos to Mauritius, and resettle families it evicted from this island in 1968. The British refusal flies in the face of a UN resolution, an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice. This is a dark chapter, marked with deceit, tragedy, and above all a colonial land grab. The same rights Britain is demanding for evicted whites in Zimbabwe, it can’t offer for the Chagos Islanders who are refugees in Britain. The shame of a glaring double-standards!
If this punitive economic war is based on the delusion that a red carpet will be rolled for the opposition to walk into government as the new rulers, of Zimbabwe, let these imperialists wake up from their dream. 
Zimbabwe’s opposition is under civil war; bloody violence, intimidations, and embezzlement of funds, and cheap blackmail has become their modus operandi.
Despotic tendencies of the late Morgan Tsvangirai and his later-day puppy, Nelson Chamisa, is causing serious upheavals. The damning findings of political scientist Dr. Alex Magaisa hired to diagnose MDC-T ailments are all there for everyone to read.
Lost in all these powerplays, ran by the opposition as directed by their Western sympathizers are that these sanctions are hurting the ordinary Zimbabweans businessmen, school-going children, the working class, farmers to mention but a few.
How the opposition has never noticed this reality in their unmitigated power-lust leaves me wondering how they seek to lead the same people they are conniving with their powerful western friends to punish.
On behalf of Africa, and other friends of Zimbabwe worldwide; I appeal to the governments of the USA and the EU to: 
To cultivate a better working relationship with President Emerson Mnangagwa. He has extended a hand of friendship and fellowship wisdom demands that these governments must unclench their hands and reciprocate the good gesture.
GOD BLESS ZIMBABWE</blockquote>
Source: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/sanctions-were-fashioned-to-kill-zimbabwe-academic/">New Zimbabwe </a>

OPINION: Sanctions Now A Tactless Miscalculated Economic Warfare Fashioned To Kill Zimbabwe - David Matsanga

The Supreme Court has granted opposition MDC-T interim leadership a further extension up to November 30 to hold an extraordinary congress.
The court had in March ordered that the <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/08/26/mdc-yet-to-be-granted-application-for-extension-of-congress-mwonzora/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">party holds the congress not later than the 31st of July</a> this year but the party currently led by Thokozani Khupe argued that <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/07/27/zapu-postpones-congress-over-covid-19/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the coronavirus lockdown made it impossible for them to comply with the ruling.</a>
The congress is meant to elect the successor to MDC’s founding leader the late <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2018/02/14/breaking-morgan-tsvangirai-dies/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Morgan Tsvangirai who succumbed to cancer in 2018.</a>
His demise has left a power vacuum that has created a prolonged gruesome leadership crisis which has since spilt into courts.
Thokozani Khupe accuses her nemesis, <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2018/02/23/khupe-says-chamisa-just-tsvangirais-personal-assistant-seized-power-violently/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nelson Chamisa of MDC Alliance of usurping power</a> in the runup to the 2018 elections.
Meanwhile, Chamisa and his allies accuse Khupe of being a ZANU PF mole created to destabilise the biggest opposition in the country.

Supreme Court Extends Khupe's Stay In Office

The opposition MDC-T reportedly held a hastily-arranged meeting of its standing committee in Harare with officials alleging that it was in preparation for re-unification talks with the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance.
This comes when tensions between the two MDC outfits are rising due to a number of issues including <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/09/26/khupe-to-recall-38-more-mdc-a-mps-hundreds-of-councillors/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Khupe’s recalling of MDC Alliance councillors and legislators</a> and the <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/09/28/mwonzora-blames-chamisa-for-harvest-house-seizure/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">seizure of Harvest House by MDC-A youths</a>.
<div>MDC youth assembly chairperson for Harare, Paul Gorekore — who led the takeover of the Harvest House told the Daily News on Tuesday that they were determined to achieve a dialogue between Khupe and Chamisa. He said:</div>
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<div>The standing committee, which is here today (yesterday), will be attended by the MDC leadership, and from that meeting we expect them to come up with a resolution to redirect the engagement process … but the fact is that we are really desperate for unity.</div>
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<div>We are trying by all means to push our leaders to find each other, sit down and solve their differences, which we believe can be resolved amicably.</div>
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<div>When I talk about leaders, I am referring to those who held various positions when President Morgan Tsvangirai died in 2018.</div>
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<div>MDC-T’s reinstated interim chairperson, Morgen Komichi confirmed the meeting saying the agenda was to discuss “all those issues, including the fate of the expelled leaders.”</div>
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The former MP for Highfield West Happymore “Bvondo” Chidziva claimed that youths from both camps were fed up by their leaders’ brawling.
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<div>He said the MDC should “go back to the 2014 structures and start working together without apportioning factions to each other.”</div>
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<div>The prolonged leadership crisis in the MDC started to manifest in 2018 when the party’s founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai was on his deathbed.</div>
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<div>Khupe and Chamisa are leading the race to succeed the late former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.</div>
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<div>More: <a href="https://dailynews.co.zw/mdc-war-lets-up-as-leaders-speak-hope-among-supporters-finally-that-party-wont-die/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daily News</a></div>
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MDC-T Meet To Prepare For "Re-unification" Talks With Chamisa

Renowned political analysts have said the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has now fallen as a result of the prolonged leadership that started manifesting in 2018.
The party that was formed by the late former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has two major warring factions, the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa and the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe.
Speaking to the Daily News Sunday <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/09/26/khupe-to-recall-38-more-mdc-a-mps-hundreds-of-councillors/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">amid Khupe’s withdrawal of councillors and legislators aligned to Chamisa</a>, a political science lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, Eldred Masunungure said:
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<div>The MDC Alliance has reached a dead-end in terms of its political life. The battle for the MDC brand is needless, hence the need for a fresh start because the party has charismatic leaders … all they need to do is to infuse that into a new name and within a short time they will be a household name again.</div>
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<div>The problem is that the leaders at this moment are thinking with their hearts instead of their heads. They are using their sentimental attachment to the name but are only damaging their morale and confidence.</div>
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<div>He further argued that the squabbles had tainted the name of the party hence prudent to dissociate oneself from it as the “rigmarole around a damaged name will not take them anywhere.”</div>
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<div>Masunungure’s remarks were echoed by a Professor of World Politics at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, Stephen Chan, who accused both Chamisa and Khupe of being self-centred. Chan said:</div>
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<div>This is the war of the MDCs. If there is no dialogue between the MDC and Zanu PF there is certainly no dialogue between the MDCs.</div>
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<div>But these MPs (facing recalls) were democratically elected. To that extent, this is in fact a war against democracy for the sake of winning party turf.</div>
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<div>Last week, Chan reiterated other analysts’ sentiments that the intraparty conflict will weaken the party ahead of the 2023 elections thereby unnecessarily giving an advantage to the ruling ZANU PF</div>
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<div>More: Daily News</div>

Renowned Political Analysts Say "MDC Has Fallen"

The leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change Tsvangirai (MDC-T), Thokozani Khupe has reportedly been embarrassed at the funeral of Mbuya Chamisa, the mother of MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.
Mbuya Chamisa died on Monday at her rural home in Gutu, the cause of her death has not yet been revealed. She is scheduled to be laid to rest this Wednesday at Chidyamakuni Village, Makwiriwindi area of Chiwara.
The leader of the Labour, Economists and African Democrats (LEAD), Linda Masarira posted on Twitter this Wednesday criticising the incident. She said:
<blockquote>I hear that <a class="link-complex" data-user-name="DrThoko_Khupe" href="https://twitter.com/DrThoko_Khupe/" rel="noopener user noreferrer" target="_blank">@DrThoko_Khupe</a> has been embarrassed &amp; chased away <a class="link-complex" data-user-name="nelsonchamisa" href="https://twitter.com/nelsonchamisa/" rel="noopener user noreferrer" target="_blank">@nelsonchamisa</a> mothers funeral. What happened to Ubuntu? Since when do we chase away people at funerals. It is high time that <a class="link-complex" data-user-name="nelsonchamisa" href="https://twitter.com/nelsonchamisa/" rel="noopener user noreferrer" target="_blank">@nelsonchamisa</a> calls his supporters to order. A leader should instil values in his followers.</blockquote>
Khupe and Chamisa have been, since 2018, been locked in a gruesome leadership wrangle that has recently turned nasty.
The duo is fighting over the leadership of the MDC which has, since 1999, been under the leadership of the late former Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai unto succumbing to cancer in 2018.
More: <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/07/08/self-trained-mbare-midwife-mbuya-gwena-wants-to-resume-services/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Linda Masarira</a>

"Khupe Embarrassed, Chased Away At Mbuya Chamisa's Funeral" - Report

The ruling ZANU PF has said that current squabbles in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was weakening the party adding that it was also a blow to democracy in the country.
This comes when the MDC is divided into two warring factions – one led by Nelson Chamisa and the other led by Thokozani Khupe, since the demise of the party’s founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai in 2018.
Posting on Twitter, ZANU PF said:
<blockquote>Democracy thrives on strong opposition<img alt="‼️" class="emoji" decoding="async" draggable="false" src="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/203c.png"/> We pray MDC will soon fix their problems. MDC’s current factional fights are also affecting service delivery in urban areas, ZANU PF supporters like every other urbanites are equally affected by the chaos holding in opposition.</blockquote>
Meanwhile, MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claims that the ruling party was sponsoring the faction led by Khupe to destroy the opposition in the country.
The theory gained popularity when the state military and police officers assisted youths belonging to the Khupe faction to take control of the Morgan Tsvangirai House which the MDC Alliance was using as its headquarters.
On the other hand, MDC-T is accusing MDC Alliance officials of abusing the party’s constitution and usurping power from Khupe whom they say was the legitimate and automatic heir to the throne after Tsvangirai.
More: <a href="https://twitter.com/zanupf_patriots/status/1278626458865405952" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ZANU PF</a>

"Democracy Thrives On Strong Opposition,"- ZANU PF 'Wishes MDC Speedy Recovery'

The ruling ZANU PF has denied involvement in the power squabbles that have rocked the opposition MDC since 2018 when the party’s founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai died.
The party speaks when the MDC Alliance is accusing ZANU PF of meddling in MDC internal affairs and creating the crisis in the party.
Responding to the allegations, Zanu PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa said:
<blockquote>Zanu PF has nothing to do with the squabbles within the MDC. The squabbles within the MDC emanate from lack of obedience to their own constitution.
The late Tsvangirai tore up a constitution to appoint two illegal vice-presidents. They created internal conflicts and Zanu PF has nothing to do with those internal conflicts. We have nothing to do with the demise and the split in the opposition. It will split because they are not democratic.</blockquote>
Chinamasa added that even the courts confirmed that Tsvangirai acted contrary to the constitution, therefore, the party was now trying to correct and align the MDC to the rule of law.
This is happening when the leadership crisis has divided the MDC into two factions – MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa and MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe.
More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/">NewsDay</a>

"Blame The Crisis On Tsvangirai," - ZANU PF On MDC Leadership Crisis

Nixon Nyikadzino, the Secretary-General of the MDC-T formed by Thokozani Khupe in 2018 has urged warring MDC factions – MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa and MDC-T led by Khupe, to find each other adding that the party – MDC, risked losing supporters.
Nyikadzino who is popularly known as Chairman Mao speaks amid heightened tensions between the factions following the Supreme Court ruling on the party leadership crisis that reinstated Khupe as the MDC-T’s supreme leader.
Speaking to New Zimbabwe, Nyikadzino said the war was not sustainable adding that the squabbles were giving the ruling ZANU PF some undeserved advantage.
He said peace among wrangling parties will give infinite prosperity for Zimbabwe and its people and eternal peace for the party’s founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai. Nyikadzino added:
<blockquote>At some point, all of us as leaders must sober up and look at the bigger picture. These power struggles are unsustainable in the sense that the more we fight, the more we are likely to lose both support and traction from those we want to serve.
An internal settlement in the opposition will make it difficult for Zanu PF to use partisan and patronage approaches in dividing the opposition because they will not be able to buy materially desperate leaders.</blockquote>
Meanwhile, the wrangle seems continuous as Chamisa is adamant that he has the support of the people while Khupe banks on court order.
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/mdc-losing-support-base-as-factions-wrangle-for-party-control-nyikadzino/">New Zimbabwe</a>

"MDC To Lose Supporters Due To Leadership Crisis," - MDC Official

Richard Tsvangirai, one of the sons of the late founding leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai has said his fight is for a better future not “someone’s legacy.”
He speaks when the opposition MDC is marred by a leadership crisis that has seen factions led by Nelson Chamisa (MDC Alliance) and the MDC-T by Thokozani Khupe have jostled for association with Tsvangirai.
There have been a number of MDC factions before and the party’s supporters always chose the side supported by Tsvangirai who is regarded as the champion of democracy in the country. Posting on Twitter, Richard said:
<blockquote>Cdes, we’re fighting not because of someone’s legacy but because we want a better future, a future where we’re in control of every aspect of our lives, so that when fail we don’t blame it on the govt but ourselves. This is a generational fight, together we’ll define our own destiny.</blockquote>
There has been stampede recently by both factions over the Tsvangirai family since the close association with it is premised at luring party supporters.
Recently, Khupe led MDC-T went and “performed rituals” at Tsvangirai’s grave in Buhera and also gave Tsvangirai’s brother, Manasa a senior post in the party while Chamisa’s faction has the support of some of Tsvangirai’s children.
More: <a href="https://twitter.com/RTsvangirayi/status/1274800587658452995">Richard Tsvangirai</a>

"We’re Fighting Not Because Of Someone’s Legacy" - Tsvangirai's Son

Jonathan Chando writing for the independent opined that the MDC Alliance legal cobweb is self-inflicted and denying that and blaming its woes on external forces is psychological deflection. Chando opined:
<blockquote>We are a pretty impressionable people. We all like to say that we are independent, free individuals who make up our own minds, but the reality is that we are heavily influenced by the company we keep. Therefore, we need to be very careful with how we create our inner circle and what advice we embrace.
Following the Supreme Court judgment on the Elias Mashavira, MDC/Chamisa case, I wrote a legal analysis which was published in the Zimbabwe Independent on May 5, 2020, in which I interrogated the court’s arguments in making their determination. I also articulated the enforceability of the order and its consequences on the MDC-Alliance, despite denials by its leadership. I explained how the MDC-Alliance was a direct bi-product of the original MDC left by Morgan Tsvangirai, and unconstitutionally usurped by Nelson Chamisa. I further wrote that even if the MDC-Alliance was a political party, it would still be impacted by the judgment.
In my analysis, I explained how the reinstated leadership led by Thokozani Khupe would be legally entitled to recall members of the National Assembly, senators and councillors elected under the MDC-Alliance banner, as they had been a component of the MDC reinstated by the Supreme Court. I advised that Chamisa and his MDC-Alliance outfit, had two options, to abide by the judgment and unite the party, or to form a new party divorced from the MDC.
While Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube and David Coltart went on Twitter and held press briefings, claiming that the judgment had nothing to do with the MDC-Alliance as it is a distinct political party unrelated to the MDC, whose judgment had been handed down by the Supreme Court, my analysis then, has since come to pass.
The MDC-Alliance has now been embroiled in devastating turmoil of huge proportions. It was evident for any legally literate individual that disaster was coming to the MDC-Alliance, despite its leadership, ironically filled with legal minds, denying this glaring truth.
Thus the MDC-Alliance is engulfed in or is employing what social scientists would call “denial psychology”, coupled with “psychological deflection.” But what do these phrases mean?
Denial psychology
Denial psychology is a person’s act of denying reality as a way of avoiding a psychologically uncomfortable truth. It is essentially irrational action that withholds the validation of a historical experience or event, when a person refuses to accept an empirically verifiable reality. Denial psychology is built around understanding denial as a coping mechanism, along with the way it impacts people and their deeds and relationships.
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Denial psychology is a trait that has been quite evident in both the leadership of the MDC-Alliance across the board, and some of its aligned political, legal and media pundits, which has sadly cascaded to its religiously subservient membership and some of the citizenry.
The noise made by both the leadership and aligned pundits, that the judgment had no effect on the MDC-Alliance, was clear denial psychology. While they made noise denying it, in my analysis I correctly opined that the judgement would have consequences on them, and it is coming to pass.
Soon after the judgment, instead of making sober legal arguments in their criticism thereof, and work to contain the damage done, they went into denial mode, yet they knew very well of the impeding devastating ramifications on their political outfit. Unfortunately, the storm, whose impeding disastrous arrival they have been denying, has hit home and has now caused pandemonium within the MDC-Alliance, and they now employ psychological deflection, by blaming external forces for fomenting their discomfiture.
While Zanu PF is capable of anything in destabilising the opposition, the MDC mess is a self-inflicted roughhouse, and blaming external forces for its legal cobweb is psychological deflection.
Psychological deflection
Psychological deflection is described as a narcissistic abuse tactic used to control the mind and emotions of others, and is also a coping mechanism strategy. Individuals who use this seek to mask their own impulses by denying their mistakes and failures, projecting them on the people around them or most commonly their adversaries.
Human beings have a natural tendency to be proud of their achievements and share their positive results with others. But when it comes to failure, we usually attribute it to external factors: the system, the judiciary, the government, the other faction etc.
This is because our ego develops a self-defence system that prevents us from acknowledging that we are wrong, thus making us feel less responsible for the consequences of our own actions or omissions. MDC-Alliance leaders have been employing psychological deflection, by blaming Zanu-PF, the judiciary and those in the MDC who have decided to follow the Supreme Court judgment.
In this article, I will go through the political, legal and constitutional miscalculations that Chamisa and the MDC-Alliance leaders have been making, while blaming external forces for their own faux pas.
The Art of War
Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, in his book, The Art of War, wrote: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained, you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
From my observations, the MDC-Alliance fits the third scenario. They know, neither themselves nor their enemy. They have been succumbing in every battle, even when they are at an advantage, because they know neither themselves nor their enemy.
During the liberation war, Zanla received weapons from different communist and socialist states. In 1978, they received arms, in the form of a Soviet-type cheap sub-machine gun called Papasha or Pepesha in local lingo. This weapon was a kind of sub-machine pistol, which was not effective in real combat situations. The Zanla command, realising the weapon’s inadequacy to face the enemy in the battlefield on the frontline, decided to keep this weapon in storage and in use in camps in Mozambique.
While there was a shortage of weaponry as trained fighters outnumbered the available weaponry, the commanders knew their enemy, and decided not to risk their forces by sending them with such weapons to the battlefront to be defeated and annihilated. They instead opted to maintain the war with the reduced effective weaponry they had.
They only deployed these Pepesha pistol guns in 1979 in liberated zones, where there was little or no chance of engagement with the enemy. For the civilians in these zones, there was no difference between well-armed comrades and those with Pepeshas. This is called strategy, as surmised by Sun Tzu. Zanla knew its enemy, and knew itself, and succeeded in the war against Ian Smith.
Now coming to the MDC, which is now calling itself the MDC-Alliance, the democratic, constitutional and legal missteps they have made along the way are detrimental to the fight against Zanu PF, because they appear to know neither themselves nor their enemy, hence the multiple splits and intra-party conflicts.
The split between Tsvangirai and Welshman Ncube marked the first indication of constitutional transgressions. This was repeated when Tendai Biti and Elton Mangoma were expelled from the MDC followed by Job Sikhala. All these times, the MDC employed denial psychology and psychological deflection, blaming their former colleagues of being Zanu PF elements.
The greatest chance ever to slip through the hands of the MDC to engineer change in Zimbabwe was in the period between 2009 and 2013, when MDC won the elections in 2008, but was deprived of taking over State House at the hands of the military. This led to a stalemate which resulted in the Government of National Unity (GNU) in early 2009. Instead of pushing vehemently and consistently for political, electoral and security sector reforms during this period, the MDC cabal slept on the pickings of high office and forgot their purpose.
This was a chance they must rue, and may never regain. While they credit themselves with reviving the economy during this period, including the reduction of the cost of mobile phone sim-cards, credited to Chamisa, the truth is that the economic decline was reversed by the introduction of the multi-currency regime by Zanu PF in February 2009, just before the GNU, following the rejection of the useless and inflationary Zimdollar notes by kombi drivers and touts. The introduction of the multi-currency regime stabilised supply and demand, and brought about sanity in the economy.
While Biti managed the economy on the “we eat what we kill” mantra, and reduced government spending, he did nothing to stimulate productivity and exports, to bring the economy back on track. The economy remained consumer driven, without any foreign currency generation.
In 2016, Tsvangirai appointed Elias Mudzuri and Chamisa, ultra vires the MDC constitution and against rational and legal advice from lawyers like Alex Magaisa, Eric Matinenga and Douglas Mwonzora. When later confronted with questions on succession about who would takeover should anything happen to him, Tsvangirai, in an audio released on social media, was explicit that Khupe was the constitutionally elected vice-president who would automatically take over.
Following this, the biggest constitutional goof that the MDC made, was the imperceptive support of the unconstitutional power takeover by the military in November 2017, which ushered in exiled Emmerson Mnangagwa, whose ascendance to power they now call a coup de tat. As a party with a contingent of lawyers, and which portrays itself as democrats, they failed to stick to constitutionalism, in the hope of being included in a power sharing matrix.
I remember writing an article expressing my dismay, when Chamisa, a lawyer, was interviewed on CapiTalk Radio’s Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa, and professed that the removal of Mugabe was a miracle. A miracle really? He did not even consider that as a lawyer, he was obliged to consider the constitutionality of the power grab, which was evidently a coup d’etat, as well as an intra-party feud.
At the time, not even the human rights lawyers aligned to the MDC spoke against the military abuses during the period. The only voices I observed were from David Coltart and Brian Kagoro, who called it a de facto coup d’état, which should not have been supported by the MDC. To me, this exposes the MDC leadership as opportunists, who have no respect for democracy and constitutionalism. They disregard constitutionalism as long as it leads them to power, and proclaim it when it is convenient for them.
It is undisputed, that Chamisa unconstitutionally usurped power a day after Tsvangirai’s death, and everything took a different direction, dividing the MDC, post Tsvangirai. This is some hard truth which both Chamisa himself, his colleagues in the MDC-Alliance and wayward pundits in his corner refuse to admit was the cause of all the current misadventures. They pretend it never happened. They have tried to peddle the idea that the Mashavira case is moot, as they seek to deny and forget the illegality. But Justice Bharat Patel was clear: such unconstitutionality cannot be allowed by the courts, because of the potential proximity of the incumbent to constitutional state power. Denial psychology continues to rule over their minds and actions.</blockquote>
Source: <a href="https://www.theindependent.co.zw/2020/06/19/mdc-and-politics-of-denial-psychology-and-deflection/">The Zimbabwe Independent </a>

OPINION: MDC And Politics Of Denial Psychology And Deflection

The leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic ChangeTsvangirai (MDC-T), Thokozani Khupe has vowed to redirect the party back to its founding principles.
She made the remarks at a conference which followed the party’s first Standing Committee held at Morgan Tsvangirai House on Monday.
Khupe claimed that MDC was founded on constitutionalism and democracy, principles which should guide the parties actions from now forward.
MDC-T leadership and members claim that the MDC had departed from its principles since the ascension of Nelson Chamisa to the helm of the party following the demise of the founding party leader, Morgan Tsvangirai in 2018.
They claim Chamisa, with the help of the National Council, usurped power from Khupe who was the legitimate heir to Tsvangirai.
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