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...
He is also much less sure footed talking about policy detail than either party colleagues like former finance minister Tendai Biti who has been sidelined in this campaign...
For examples the fight between former minister of finance Tendai Biti and Rusty Markham known for raising tricky questions in parliament and court cases as well as for being one of the few MPs to refuse a US$40 000 state pay out last year...
Most of the seats had the Mwonzora candidates trailing far behind the candidates fronted by Chamisa's CCC: in Harare East MDC-T's Christopher Mbanga the former Deputy Mayor received a dismal 114 votes compared with the CCC's Tendai Biti who won the constituency with 7 534 votes and the ZANU-PF candidate Mavis Gumbo who received 3 045 votes (Dispatches 28/3/22 Chamisa's Citizens' Coalition for Change wins 19 out of 28 seats in grand by-election battle)...
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Former Finance Minister Tendai Biti is one of the leaders of Nelson Chamisa's Citizens' Coalition for Change...
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It has lost its value for ZANU-PF as a means to split the opposition and hold back leading politicians such as Chamisa and Tendai Biti former finance minister and a now an MP for CCC...
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Tendai Biti and five other MPs who were recalled will run in the by- elections on the CCC ticket...
Zimbabwe's need for international financial assistance led to the MDC's Tendai Biti being appointed Finance Minister from where he could track revenues flowing through the Treasury and those that were not...
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Regional friendsHichilema's victory has been hailed by opposition politicians in the region with figures such as Zimbabwe's Tendai Biti and Nelson Chamisa Tanzania's Zitto Kabwe and South Africa's Mmusi Maimane attending the inauguration...
Despite these protestations the former chair of the Zimbabwean parliament's Public Accounts Committee Tendai Biti last year accused Trafigura and Tagwirei of being the biggest player in 'the mafia and cartels in fuel'...
