There were some surprising results – independent MP Temba Mliswa a strong parliamentarian and formerly ZANU PF Chairperson for Mashonaland West was defeated in his Norton constituency by none other than Richard Tsvangirai son of the founder of the MDC the late Morgan Tsvangirai...
But Chamisa unlike his predecessor Morgan Tsvangirai has stayed away from any frontline protests...
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An ally of MDC founder Morgan Tsvangirai Mwonzora has been marginalised by Nelson Chamisa's Citizens Coalition for Change and has faced accusations from the CCC and others of accepting ZANU-PF benefits in return for splitting the opposition (AC Vol 63 No 7 The Change campaign changes hands)...
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Their pronouncements fly in the face of the late opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's warning to ZANU-PF a decade ago: 'You can rig the election but you can't rig the economy...
And in Norton where Richard Tsvangirai son of Movement for Democratic Change founder Morgan Tsvangirai nominated himself as a parliamentary candidate but was attacked by the supporters of a rival...
Mwonzora a long-time ally of MDC founder Morgan Tsvangirai is accused by the CCC and others of accepting ZANU-PF benefits in return for splitting the opposition (AC Vol 63 No 7 The Change campaign changes hands)...
The MDC-T is a ZANU-PF-sponsored shell whose only resemblance to the party of Morgan Tsvangirai's time is the title...
Legacy loserLike Thokozani Khupe who split with Chamisa prior to the 2018 election Mwonzora believed that he and MDC-T had inherited pioneering oppositionist Morgan Tsvangirai's legacy and party structures (AC Vol 63 No 3 New bid to revive the opposition & Vol 59 No 12 How to fix a coalition)...
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On 24 January President Emmerson Mnangagwa's main opponent in the last general elections Nelson Chamisa launched a new political party hoping to close the chapter of rivalries and splits that marked the demise of the country's dominant opposition party for over 20 years the late Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)...
The opposition is in disarray after a March 2020 court ruling that found MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa had been unconstitutionally elected to the party's vice-presidency and could not have lawfully risen to its helm after founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai died in 2017...
The largest of these parties was led by Chamisa who inherited the mantle of top opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's party the MDC-T when Tsvangirai died in February 2018 (AC Vol 60 No 17 Power play in Harare)...
