After the by-elections Douglas Mwonzora's Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai (MDC-T) looks dead in the water...
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Funds neededRecent by-elections in which Nelson Chamisa's newly branded Citizens' Coalition for Change displaced Douglas Mwonzora's grouplet as the main opposition show that the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front will need all the dividends it can collect to fund a winning campaign in next year's national elections (Dispatches 28/03/22 Chamisa's Citizens' Coalition for Change wins 19 out of 28 seats in grand by-election battle)...
The final report into Command Agriculture which Biti claims was watered down was presented in Parliament in March this year by Brian Dube a Gweru MP for Douglas Mwonzora's opposition Movement for Democratic Change-Alliance...
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In all those 19 seats the CCC's main rival was the Movement for Democratic Change – Alliance (MDC-A) led by Douglas Mwonzora ostensibly an opposition grouping but widely believed to be close to the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF – AC Vol 62 No 1 Mnangagwa digs in)...
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Khupe was then overthrown by her deputy Douglas Mwonzora who then laid claim not only to the presidency of the MDC-T but to the MDC Alliance's funding and assets...
His former party colleague Douglas Mwonzora now the head of a government-backed breakaway faction continues to insist that his party is the real MDC Alliance and that it will use the party name and logo (AC Vol 62 No 7 Gutting the opposition)...
Chamisa faces heavy obstacles between now and the 2023 election not least the hijacking of a large section his party and assets by his former comrade Douglas Mwonzora in a move supported not so discreetly by the government (AC Vol 62 No 7 Gutting the opposition)...
Douglas Mwonzora the leader of this faction says he is a pursuing a new style of opposition politics calling it 'rational disputation'...
Further divisions opened up when Khupe in turn was defeated at the December 2020 party congress by former MDC-T Secretary-General Douglas Mwonzora...
In December political veteran Douglas Mwonzora defeated Khupe in elections for the leadership of her faction of the MDC after which he appointed her deputy leader...
Without a political resolution to these legal fights – such as leader of main MDC-A faction Nelson Chamisa reaching out to Khupe and her new ally Douglas Mwonzora in MDC-T – the opposition parties will be badly divided as they go into the 2023 elections...
