Using its formidable financial war chest built on diverted public funds and stolen state assets the first group has bought most MPs from the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and a substantial number of pseudo-opposition MPs aligned with Sengezo Tshabangu...
The current official Leader of the Opposition Sengezo Tshabangu was installed after an internal coup shortly after the 2023 elections displacing Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa (AC Vol 65 No 3 Opposition in turmoil as Chamisa quits & Vol 65 No 12 Government's man subverts the resistance)...
Chamisa stepped away from the CCC in January 2024 after a faction of the party was hijacked by Sengezo Tshabangu widely believed to be working with the security services...
These are within the ruling party's grasp because it can depend on over two-thirds of the seats in parliament thanks to the recalls of opposition legislators by the upstart Sengezo Tshabangu who overthrew Nelson Chamisa as leader of the Citizens' Coalition for Change (AC Vol 65 No 12 Government's man subverts the resistance)...
The party has a super-majority in the legislature holding nearly 70% of the seats thanks to the recall of opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change representatives by the CCC's self-appointed Secretary General Sengezo Tshabangu (AC Vol 65 No 12 Government's man subverts the resistance & Vol 64 No 23 ZANU-PF's impostor plot)...
He lost his 2023 parliamentary bid to Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) candidate Munyaradzi Kufahakutizwi who was however recalled in Sengezo Tshabangu's ZANU-PF-sponsored internal coup (AC Vol 64 No 18 Legitimacy questions may spur talks & Vol 64 No 23 ZANU-PF's impostor plot)...
Nelson Chamisa former president of the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) resigned in January 2024 in protest at the takeover of his party by Sengezo Tshabangu after the disputed August 2023 elections (AC Vol 65 No 3 Opposition in turmoil as Chamisa quits)...
The list of 70 MPs included at least six opposition members – notably Sengezo Tshabangu the self-proclaimed leader of the former opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change seen as a ZANU-PF collaborator who is said to be receiving 2 000 square metres...
Mavunga who won the Nketa MP seat in a by-election after the mass removal of MPs by opposition senator Sengezo Tshabangu in his takeover of the Citizens' Coalition for Change from Nelson Chamisa will join the Ministry of Local Government amid a boom in privately funded urban projects linked to Mnangagwa and his sons (AC Vol 65 No 12 Government's man subverts the resistance)...
The opposition – which was eviscerated by the 2023 election and Sengezo Tshabangu's takeover of the Citizens Coalition for Change last year – is unlikely to make a comeback in a recognisable form in 2025 (AC Vol 65 No 12 Government's man subverts the resistance)...
