Within the CCC Chamisa's proxy Jameson Timba appears to command more support than either Tshabangu or Welshman Ncube: when Timba and Tshabangu called rival caucus meetings in June Timba's drew twice the number of MPs...
Welshman Ncube interim president of the CCC since Chamisa's resignation (although a different faction of the party from Timba's) appears to be open an inclusive government ‘so that the economy delivers for the people so that politics delivers for the people...
The meeting was chaired by Welshman Ncube one of the CCC vice-presidents and a long-term rival of Chamisa...
One school of thought is that Tshabangu is the public face of another major opposition split where either (or both) of the CCC Deputy Presidents Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube break away from or overthrow Chamisa...
Tshabangu went on to publish a press statement on 10 October stating that Chamisa himself had been expelled from the CCC and replaced with his deputies Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube...
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)...