Chamisa forged alliances with breakaway factions of the MDC bringing former finance minister Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube back into the main body of the party as well as bringing in smaller opposition parties and even ZANU-PF defectors...
Two of its new vice-presidents Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti had led break-away factions in the Tsvangirai era...
The question is to what extent a weakened Chamisa will face challenges from other opposition heavyweights such as former Finance Minister Tendai Biti or former Trade andIndustry Minister Welshman Ncube...
Obstructive ZECInstead Chamisa and top allies such as Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube are focusing efforts on the mechanics of the election and cutting down vote-fixing...
The parties include that led by Morgan Tsvangirai former Prime Minister in the National Unity government the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai (MDC-T); Welshman Ncube's MDC faction; former Vice-President Joice Mujuru's Zimbabwe People First; Tendai Biti's People's Democratic Party; Simba Makoni's Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn; and Elton Mangoma's Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe (AC Vol 57 No 9 Morgan goes it alone)...
Much like the breakaway MDC formation led by Welshman Ncube its impact on the political arena has been marginal (AC Vol 46 No 24 Senate subterfuge)...
The deals were kept from their partners in government the Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai and a breakaway MDC formation led by Welshman Ncube...
In a score of seats ZANU-PF scraped through with less than 50% as the rivalry between Tsvangirai and Welshman Ncube split the opposition vote...
That would give the two factions of the MDC – under Tsvangirai and Welshman Ncube – control of Parliament...
Welshman Ncube's MDC has not had a good campaign and the ten seats it won in 2008 could all be vulnerable to MDC-T...
The MDC-T's launching rally in Marondera on 7 July was well attended but some impact was lost by the absence of Dumiso Dabengwa's Zimbabwe African People's Union and Welshman Ncube's MDC-Ncube from what some opposition activists had promised would be a grand coalition...
