Nelson Chamisa

There's hope for change without illusion according to Nelson Chamisa deputy president of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change...

In anticipation of the elections and worried about his health Tsvangirai created two additional Vice-Presidents; the youthful Nelson Chamisa who is insatiably ambitious and widely mistrusted by veterans and the older founding member Elias Mudzuri an engineer who was brutally persecuted by ZANU-PF when he became Harare's first elected mayor (AC Vol 50 No 4 The MDC line-up)...

At the end a stunned Mugabe was instructed by Speaker Jacob Mudenda on the submission of MDC-T MP Nelson Chamisa to return for a question-and-answer session...

Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai's Nelson Chamisa dubbed the reliance on sometimes dodgy telecommunications as 'government by wi-fi' a punning jibe at the increasingly assertive First Lady Grace Mugabe...

This could see some of their heavyweights return to parliament including David Mwonzora who rivals Nelson Chamisa as a potential crown prince...

One outstanding performer from the days of the coalition government is the 36-year-old Nelson Chamisa...

If the official media can be believed Tsvangirai and his MDC are in little better shape with a faction around Tsvangirai himself another around Tendai Biti the respected Finance Minister and a third around Nelson Chamisa the darling of the grassroots...

Perhaps stunned by the ferocity of the attack we hear that Biti’s MDC colleagues – Nelson Chamisa (Information) Theresa Makone (Home Affairs) and Tapiwa Mashakada (Economic Development) – sided with ZANU-PF heavyweights Vice-President Joice Mujuru Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and State Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi in rejecting plans for swingeing cutbacks this year...

Nelson Chamisa the darling of Congress after his performances with the Youth and Women’s leagues went on to overwhelm the incumbent Elias Mudzuri as Organising Secretary and will have his work cut out to keep the lid on...

The impressive Biti is effectively the MDC’s number two; Nelson Chamisa is more popular with the cadres than anyone apart from Tsvangirai; Elias Mudzuri remains a distant third...