Members of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) who were barred from participating in the upcoming by-elections have filed an appeal at the Supreme Court. Sengezo Tshabangu, who is the disputed Secretary General of the party, has reportedly not opposed the appeal. Tshabangu recalled these members and went to court to block them from participating in the by-elections under the CCC banner. He argued that it was unreasonable for them to represent a party that had recalled them because they were no longer its members.
Some of the appellants mentioned in the appeal are Amos Chibaya, Gift Siziba, Abel Nyakarombo, Tomson Magaluwa, Bornface Tagwirei, Roger Chikonye, Musingashari Musingashari, Sophia Rudo Gwasira, Cloud Nengomasha, Simon Mapuvire, Alice Kundlande, Loyce Tigiri, Ninion Varandeni, Dyke Mukumbi, Lovemore Maiko, Kudakwashe John, Kumirai Rutsvava, Ian Muteto Makone, Simon Machisvo, Jerita Mutingwende, Samuel Gwenzi, and Innocent Kuziva Haparari, along with the Citizens Coalition for Change itself.
They cited the Citizens Coalition for Change as the first respondent and Sengezo Tshabangu as the second respondent.
If Tshabangu does not oppose the appeal, the Supreme Court may grant a default judgment in favour of the appellants, allowing them to contest the by-elections under the CCC party. Some observers believe that Tshabangu won’t oppose the appeal to keep the MPs under CCC, as that is better than letting them follow Nelson Chamisa, who resigned from CCC on January 24, 2024. Several elected MPs resigned after Chamisa’s resignation, claiming that the CCC party had been infiltrated and taken over by the ruling ZANU PF and its affiliates within the CCC. Some MPs are waiting to see what Chamisa plans to do, while others are consulting with their constituents.
There have been previous claims by opposition members that the courts are biased and would rule in favour of Tshabangu. However, some believe that the courts will rule in favour of the appellants this time to leave Chamisa without influential followers. They argue that the ZANU PF government is not afraid of CCC but is afraid of Chamisa, so isolating him would weaken him.
Meanwhile, Promise Mkwananzi, who wrote to Parliament claiming to be the acting party president, hinted at bringing Chamisa back to the party.
Zuze · 1 year ago
The Master Stroke - The ChessMaster opens a Second Front in the war.
When Chamisa quit CCC I did a treatise "Capitulation or Master Stroke" The conclusion was that it was a master stroke. A few days down the line it is pretty evident that Chamisa has ZANU and Tshabangu well and truly by the short hairs.
In trying to wrestle the advantage from Chamisa, Tshabangu made a tactical blunder by trying to go back to MDC Alliance, Gweru declaration to replace Chamisa. In so doing, like a tired boxer he opened his flank for a body blow. First and foremost he was nowhere in the hierarchy. Neither were his other Nine Clowns.
Having been spurned by Biti, and probably faced by a reluctant Welshman Ncube, he attempted to entice the Third Vice President of the Triumvirate, Karenyi Kora with the leadership of the Opposition in Parliament. He found the lady unyielding.
Quo Vadis? He is now faced with a leadership vacuum in the top office. The Gweru Declaration is now an albatross around his neck. Legally he is now a lame duck because he can't justify his team if asked in Court, with two or three cases pending in The Supreme Court.
To compound Tshabangu's woes, by moving away from CCC Chamisa made way for a more combative adversary for Tshabangu in Promise Mkwananzi. Where Chamisa was a gentleman and avoided tackling Tshabangu head on, Mkwananzi was off the starting blocks with guns blazing calling Tshabangu 'bénzì' "(the madman) who chased our father out of his own home". The gloves are off, and we are about to see bare knuckled fist fight without rules.
The conundrum that this creates for Tshabangu is how to re-orient his strategy, for all along Chamisa wasn't fighting back. Mkwananzi is raring to fight. Furthermore Tshabangu's raison d'etre was that Chamisa was hand picking lawmakers without consultation. With Chamisa out of the picture, this falls flat. How can he justify further recalls?
Now that Mkwananzi is in the CCC hot seat, Tshabangu has to redesign his strategy to combat Mkwananzi. Does he have a handle? Does ZANU have a handle on Mkwananzi?
Both now have to open a second front- a hitherto unknown card has been thrown onto the poker table.
To compound the problem for ZANU and Tshabangu, Mkwananzi has hinted on bringing back Chamisa. Fact or Fiction? If fact how is ZANU going to re-engage the battle with unknown adversaries? Will he or will he not come back? Strategic ambiguity- Keep 'em guessing.
On the other hand Chamisa seems to be moving towards setting up another political movement, whose nature , form and function is still conjecture because he is playing cat and mouse. Will he or will he not? Keep 'em guessing.
The sum total of this is that ZANU and Tshabangu are at sixes and sevens. They don't know which is football and which is the landmine. They could easily kick the landmine mistaking it for the football. Ping Fa, The Art of War redesigned by a Master strategist.
The most interesting development is the failure of Tshabangu to contest the Supreme Court appeal by the "fired" CCC MPs. Has ZANU decided to ditch Tshabangu? Has Tshabangu reached his sell-by date? Or is it that Tshabangu was warned that he is going to lose the cases at the Supreme Court and so decided to cut his losses and avoid losing face? What's his fate with the pending cases? Things seem to be falling apart for the boy from Emagumeni.
All along CCC cases on appeal have been moving slower than a tortoise, but there is a limit to which brakes can be applied. While Tshabangu's cases have been sailing through at lightning speed... Can this be sustained? Two electoral cases pending in the Supreme Court is too much. Even the most captured judge cannot hold out forever.
ZANU must be finding the going tough to pin down what Chamisa is up to and cannot continue to hand hold Tshabangu whose usefulness is expiring. With Mkwananzi now upping the ante, ZANU has to contend with a revitalised opposition party. And Chamisa's ghost hangs over ZANU too! Fighting battles on too many fronts is expecting too much from ZANU.
History teaches us no one has ever won a war fighting on two fronts.
🏃♀️ Chi baby Che Zanu 🌊 · 1 year ago
Mirira rufu rwe CCC @Zuze
Zuze · 1 year ago
CCC Tshabangu hanti? Yes, that's around the corner.
I will personally attend Tshabangu's funeral
🏃♀️ Chi baby Che Zanu 🌊 · 1 year ago
Ikoko kutonzi CCC Tshabangu or CCC Mkwananzi or DAZ or whatever faction, ndokumwashuka kwandakakuudzai after elections. 2023 August elections marked the obliteration of CCC.
🏃♀️ Chi baby Che Zanu 🌊 · 1 year ago
Tell me @Zuze!!! If Sikhala did it, why can't Chamisa did it? 🤣 Sic....
Chamisa is no longer as fragile as he was before elections. Chave chigondora chozvifurira... Saka i hope he's bold enough to stand the real consequences of political activism...especially considering that he has been using too many shortcuts 😂😂😂😂
Privacy or no privacy? 🤣
That is a matter of vana Sorojena i guess. Only the daft believe that there are secrets in this teapot shaped country kept against the government. That'd compromise our security. Kana wada kuita secret wotochengetera mumoyo mako kunge Marshall munhumumwe. Otherwise thinking that telling a second and third person won't harm you is a day dream. Anyway, mirirai nguva yekusuwa 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Zuze · 1 year ago
@Privacy... if these bumbling bunglers knew what Nero was up to, surely they wouldn't be abducting Chinhoyi University students to question them about Chamisa's plans.
What we have is a government of incompetent bunglers. period
@Zuze · 1 year ago
Uri kumas**** kwemwaka. Best sources of information are just next to Nero. 😂😂😂. His weaknesses are known because he dinned with Zanu pf way before he thought he'd aspire to be a president. Nero has no secrets. Zvema college students is all stage managed. Zanu pf doesnt concern itself to nonentities 😂😂😂😂😂😂particularly nonentities of no identity