Mavunga who won the Nketa MP seat in a by-election after the mass removal of MPs by opposition senator Sengezo Tshabangu in his takeover of the Citizens' Coalition for Change from Nelson Chamisa will join the Ministry of Local Government amid a boom in privately funded urban projects linked to Mnangagwa and his sons (AC Vol 65 No 12 Government's man subverts the resistance)...

But expect former CCC president Nelson Chamisa who dramatically retired from the party last January to re-enter public life probably via a broader coalition outside traditional opposition structures (AC Vol 65 No 3 Opposition in turmoil as Chamisa quits)...

Timba leads one of the branches of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) following the resignation of party president Nelson Chamisa earlier in the year (AC Vol 65 No 3 Opposition in turmoil as Chamisa quits)...

In January CCC president Nelson Chamisa resigned from the party leaving its structures in chaos (AC Vol 65 No 3 Opposition in turmoil as Chamisa quits)...

The founding leader of the CCC Nelson Chamisa snapped on 25 January when he announced he would 'no longer have anything to do with the CCC'...

CHAMISA'S PARTY WITHOUT CHAMISA The Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) is in chaos since Nelson Chamisa's resignation with leadership decisions being made through statements on social media...

Although the president of the party Nelson Chamisa produced evidence of having sent a letter to Mudenda on 11 September instructing him that no person other than Chamisa was authorised to communicate with parliament about party matters Mudenda enforced Tshabangu's instruction and ordered the removal of the 'recalled' MPs from parliament (AC Vol 64 No 21 Mnangagwa presses on regardless)...

Apparently these 'forces' have a Zimbabwean employee in the SADC Secretariat who is a close associate of Nelson Chamisa and in the pay of the EU – a classic neo-imperial plot...

Nelson Chamisa the party's president wrote to Mudenda stating that there was no such position in the party and that the individual Sengezo Tshabangu was not even a member...

These opposition strongholds along with Matabeleland North were the only provinces in the 2018 election where Nelson Chamisa of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) won more votes than the ruling Zimbabwe Africa National Union-Patriotic Front's Mnangagwa (ZANU PF)...

In many townships Zimbabweans woke up to find pamphlets claiming to come from opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and urging them not to vote because 'the election has already been stolen'...