As well as the usual ZANU-PF invective the CCC will be hit with nuisance court actions such as the ongoing prosecution of the party Vice-Chairman Job Sikhala MP who has been denied bail 10 times since his arrest in June at the funeral of an opposition activist whose dismembered body was dumped in a well (AC Vol 63 No 23 Mnangagwa to lead ZANU-PF onslaught against opposition)...
But another prominent lawmaker in the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Job Sikhala remains inside with 13 others...
On 15 October Mwonzora's party issued a statement saying he had 'visited the Honourable Job Sikhala' and that the party was as concerned for Sikhala as 'we would be for any other Zimbabwean'...
Amnesty International has said that the detention for over three months of CCC legislators Godfrey Sithole and Job Sikhala the party's vice-chairman is based on 'trumped up charges' and is 'an effort to persecute and silence political opposition'...
The MDC's Vice-Chairman Job Sikhala was arrested and charged with plotting to overthrow the government in July...
Job Sikhala one of the three expelled claims he has deposed Mutambara and now heads the party...
Also suspended are MDC-M National Youth Chairman Gift Nyandoro Matebeleland South Treasurer Alex Goosen and Defence Secretary Job Sikhala...
Mutambara lost his seat in Harare as did party Spokesman Gabriel Chaibva Deputy Secretary Priscilla Misihairabwi and two high-profile members of parliament Job Sikhala and Trudy Stevenson...
Last month Tsvangirai expelled Job Sikhala after he claimed the party had raised US$2...
Members of parliament such as Job Sikhala and Trudy Stevenson have in the past said there is no question of a boycott...
Two MDC members of parliament Job Sikhala and Trudy Stevenson argue that abstention would be self-defeating and would further depress the party vote in by-elections...
