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Tshabangu’s Rise Makes Zimbabwe A Laughingstock, Says David Coltart

9 months agoFri, 31 May 2024 09:56:50 GMT
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Tshabangu’s Rise Makes Zimbabwe A Laughingstock, Says David Coltart

Veteran opposition politician David Coltart has warned that the rise of Sengezo Tshabangu to become the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament will damage the country’s standing abroad and make Zimbabweans “the laughingstock of the world”.

Tshabangu, an obscure opposition activist, wrote to Parliament and the Ministry of Local Government in October 2023, recalling several CCC MPs and Councillors.

Surprisingly, both Parliament and the Minister acted upon Tshabangu’s letters, even though he had neither held a CCC office nor been a candidate in the 2023 general elections.

Subsequently, Tshabangu recalled dozens of additional CCC councillors and MPs, with the courts endorsing his actions, effectively establishing him as the de facto leader of the opposition party. 

This week, Tshabangu changed the party’s leadership in Parliament and also appointed himself Leader of The Opposition.

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This came after Parliament rescinded the appointments that were made by Jameson Timba in February this year.

Posting on X, Coltart who is also the mayor of Bulawayo (CCC), Zimbabwe’s second-largest city, said Tshabangu does not have the mandate of the opposition to be its leader in Parliament. Below is Coltart’s post in full:

I am appalled by the statement made by the Speaker of Parliament yesterday that Mr Tshabangu has been recognised as the leader of the Opposition in Parliament. In my view, this act is contemptuous of Parliament itself.

At their core, all Parliaments throughout the world are meant to be representative institutions. They have been established to give the public a voice.

The whole purpose of elections is to ensure that elected MPs can enunciate the concerns and issues of those who elected them.

This is the very essence of representative democracy. It follows that the leader of the Opposition must be a person who clearly represents the interests of citizens who oppose the government of the day and who has been clearly chosen by them, either directly or indirectly, to lead them in Parliament.

In the case of Mr Tshabangu, it is clear that he only represents his own interests and at most a tiny cabal of people around him.

The facts are stark. He has never held any high office in the MDC, or any of its successors, since it was established in September 1999.

At the May 2019 MDC A Congress in Gweru, he was not elected to any office. After the formation of the CCC, he was not elected or appointed to any office. In the August 2024 general election, he was not elected to any ward or constituency.

The facts show that after the general election last year, he purported to appoint himself as SG of the CCC, and subsequently to nominate himself as a PR Senator.

He has now appointed himself as Leader of the Opposition in Parliament. Once again there is no evidence that this has been sanctioned by anybody other than himself.

The fact that Courts in judgments of exceptionally dubious and flawed jurisprudential reasoning have supported him in this illegal conduct does not rectify the fact that he does not represent anyone.

Other than his own say so there is no independent evidence of him being elected or appointed to these offices. In short, he represents no constituency, either directly or indirectly, and has little palpable support amongst the general electorate.

It is simply farcical for him to be presented as the Leader of the Opposition based on his own assertion. The Speaker has done both Parliament and the Nation a disservice by associating himself and Parliament with this narcissistic conduct.

It brings Parliament into contempt in the eyes of democrats and rational people both in Zimbabwe and elsewhere.

In fact, it does immense damage to Zimbabwe’s reputation internationally. Conduct like this simply would not be tolerated anywhere else in the democratic world.

Those who support this conduct need to have some serious introspection about the damage they are doing to “Brand #Zimbabwe”. All this does is make us the laughingstock of the world.

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38 Comments

moyo enest · 9 months ago
pakaipa
Tribalists · 9 months ago
Tshabangu doesn't understand politics of the day. he is modern day sellout for a packet of sugar. If he wanted to make real inroads he mist have gone for Zanu-PF...but hey we know he is just a puppet. For a person from Matebeleland he seems to lack the historical injustices meted against his people by zanu esp ED. Tshabangu is a zanu bootlicker.
· 9 months ago
Akatodza sekuru vake, Lobengula akatengesa nyika nekufadza sugar neWine
Anonymous · 9 months ago
Tshabangu oyenda nenyika,we will remember him from the political dustbins of history....soon
Anonymous · 9 months ago
TSHABANGU HAS MANAGED TO SORT OUT THE TSHONA GUKURAHUNDI TRIBALISTS. HE HAS SOWN CONFUSION WITHIN THEIR RANKS, NOW THEY ARE RUNNING HELTER SKELTER LIKE HEADLESS CHICKENS. IT IS THE TSHONA WHO CREATED THIS TRIBALISTIC UNDEMOCRATIC POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT OF ZIMBABWE. WHERE ALL THAT MATTERS IS NUMBERS, NOT DEMOCRATIC VALUES AND PRINCIPLES. THEIR LEADERS HAVE BEEN TURNING A BLIND EYE EACH TIME THEIR FOLLOWERS ARE TRIBALISTIC AGAINST MATEBELELAND. THEIR ARROGANCE IS UNMATCHED. THEY BELIEVE UKUTHI BECAUSE WE ARE FEW IN MAT, THEY CAN IMPOSE THINGS ON US AS THEY LIKE. WE SAY NO. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
The Griot · 9 months ago
This man of questionable character should know his role and shut up...He is a bigot who only thinks with his white savior complex cap on... Zimbabwe does not care about what your friends on the lower end of the melanin spectrum think as we are a sovereign nation who have their own definition of democracy....The Americans you want to intervene so much are about to vote for a noted insurrectionist and alleged s.e.x offender for president 😂😂😂... Tshabangu is a legitimate democrat washed in all the faculties and intricacies of the constitution...When others of his pressure group did the right thing and quit parliament, he remained steadfast why ??...Is it because he benefits from a system he claims to hate so much?.. That's the bottom line because The Griot said so
You are gay · 9 months ago
You are gay
Yyy · 9 months ago
Now I understand why Chamisa resigned, it's not Tshabangu, but he discovered that all Mps who have remained behind are indeed sellout and corrupt,
Anonymous · 9 months ago
3 issues here. 1. Coltart is not taliking like a lawyer . The fact that Tshabangu has represented ccc legally makes him the only legit leader . What he says about ccc goes . The Timbas were fired from the Party ane it still stands . 2. Chamisa is dull , he can not make a follow up on ccc's matter with SADC because chamisa is not part of ccc and should not taik on behalf of the opposition and by the way please di not refer to chamisa as leader of 5he opposition . He is a one man party at this stage and so he is an ipposing individual leading himself . 3.The known leaders of the ccc at the moment are Welshman and Sengezo . Watch the space . Biti decided to go on holiday , gwara uchadya izvozvo .
Anonymous · 9 months ago
Kkkk coltart you are part of the problem, the first split syndrome is living with your party upto today, cephas makuyana mhsrip was my colleague he was quized by workers why gibson was not the president of mdc as it was clear something was wrong then, hope many will remember this, 'vakomana africa netribalism matwins', i hope it will not be a cancer in the future, mdhara coltart tribal chicanery is with your party until you sort it out, you are always at pains trying to sideline ndebeles, why are you not proposing a way forward now that chamisa is gone and has declared himself national leader not political leader put the splinters in line have a common front with tribally balanced leadership, you dont learn madununu basa kushora zanu for your own faults
Tina · 9 months ago
Judging by his dressing and appearance, Tshabangu isn't a puppet. Like Malema, Tshabangu stands for people of Zimbabwe, as opposed to Nelson chamisa
🏃‍♀️ Chi baby Che Zanu🌊 · 9 months ago
he recalled mps for voted for by the people n u say he stands for the pple...ha
· 9 months ago
Nhai Tina, Chibhangu wako akamodaidzira rally kana 1 zvayo here? Iye kunze kwekudzinga vanhu vakavhoterwa chii chaakamboitira vanhu?
Anonymous · 9 months ago
Malema just like Tshabangu stands for what fits in their pocket. Malema wouldn't have started his own party if the ANC hadn't kicked him out. The bank his started has already failed and taken the peoples money for himself. One is as corrupt as the other. They didn't call Malema a tenderpreneur for nothing. You delude yourself.
Tina · 9 months ago
Coltard is talking ****, politicians image from nowhere, after all, we are all politicians. Those who know politics will agree with me. Just for example, mdc tsvangirai was formed by ordinary people and students but it became a formidable party, but unfortunately it followed tsvangirai to the grave after his death. For as long as you have a stomach, you are a politician
Tshabangu Duped · 9 months ago
Tshababgu will soon be a very disappointed man, he will find himself in a worse off situation than Mwonzora. He was promised "Sugar" but will soon realise its bitterness.
apolitical · 9 months ago
if only only we had fair games in politics, we could be having something to talk about . Zim politics it's more like a child play game, politics in Zim no longer exists and those that think they are in it are only following shadows of what was politics
Yoyoyo · 9 months ago
😁😁calm down cde we a free and fair
Yoyoyo · 9 months ago
😁😁 ngapinde hake mukomana Tshabangu🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
BigBwana the Bosss · 9 months ago
Tshabangu i****
major · 9 months ago
l don't condone anything done by Tshabangu and the rise of Tshabangu... however besides Zim being a laughing stock and so is Chamisa and the whole opposition.Chamisa had 2 jobs only (1)SET UP PROPER STRUCTURES BECUASE NO INSTITUTE IS BULLET PROOF TO INFILTRATION EVEN THE WORLD ESTEEMED FBI OR CIO ARE INFILTRATED (2) DEFEND THE PEOPLE VOTE....AND YET HE DECIDED TO BECOME A FULL TIME BLOGGER AND LEFT TGE ZIM POLITICS IN CHAOS AND LAMBO.
# · 9 months ago
The truth is that Tshabangu and Mnangagwa are heading towards a dead end. Things would be alright soon.
ꂵꃔꃳ꒦ · 9 months ago
𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙖 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣...𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙖 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙚𝙙. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙝𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙉𝙘𝙪𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙢 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙀𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙗𝙤𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙥, 𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙝𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝. 𝘼𝙠𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙖, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙨 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨𝙡 𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜. 𝙄𝙩𝙨 𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝. 𝙈𝙪𝙠𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙖 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙜. 👣
🦀🦀 · 9 months ago
haurevi nhema
🏃‍♀️ Chi baby Che Zanu🌊 · 9 months ago
& tshabangu being opposition..everything he did is it for the benefit of masses or..
Anonymous · 9 months ago
Of course CCC never appointed him. Zanu PF did.
Point of correction.... · 9 months ago
Mr mayor, Tshabangu has had an influence, he effected something and it sailed through, challenged and won in the confide of the court of law, he's interpreted the constitution to the massive, If you say he phoney why couldn't you stop him at the start other inspiration point, and having all this settlement is doing just to opposition. The truth of the matter, is Tshabangu knows what's is meant by opposition better than the scholars today, Opposition is not like scientific magnetic opposition or to see negativity when it's sunrise 🌅 you saying it's sunset 🌇, moom
hwakwata · 9 months ago
Having your IQ checked will set you free
Yoyoyo · 9 months ago
😁😁 viva Tsabangu nyika yonke iri kufara. Pasi na Chamisa pasi na Coaltat pasi ne tsikidzi
· 9 months ago
You will wake up one day
...,. · 9 months ago
the other very unfortunate thing about our situation is that most our reporters ,media houses, radio, TV, newspapers and those on social media are captured by those who shield and raise the person who claims any position for himself, and even the courts do what he wants. they will only do something to him the day he appoints himself president of the country.
ANC · 9 months ago
Zimbabwe has become a totalitarian state, Ed is the most corrupt politician, he's making million's of dollars while the rest of us are struggling to make end meets the country is in dire condition #RISE UP ZIMBABWE

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