Citizens' Coalition for Change MPs said they were excluded by Speaker Jacob Mudenda and Chief Whip Charles Moyo who is aligned with Tshabangu the rival who ousted Nelson Chamisa after the 2023 election (AC Vol 64 No 23 ZANU-PF's impostor plot Vol 65 No 3 Opposition in turmoil as Chamisa quits & Vol 65 No 12 Government's man subverts the resistance)...
CCC MPs outside Tshabangu's faction say they have been deliberately excluded from the debate by his whip and by Speaker Jacob Mudenda...
In the months leading up to the conference pro-Mnangagwa activists whipped up support for the 2030 project within ZANU structures and the President made loyalist Jacob Mudenda the party's Secretary General in charge of proceedings at conference...
At the Mutare conference despite the bitter divisions the presidium – comprising Mnangagwa Chiwenga Vice-President Kembo Mohadi Muchinguri-Kashiri and Secretary General Jacob Mudenda – tried hard to project unity holding hands during the opening prayer...
His replacement Jacob Mudenda is the Speaker of the National Assembly and a reliable ally of the President...
On 30 May the Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda appointed Sengezo Tshabangu as Leader of the Opposition in what many are calling the end of opposition politics in Zimbabwe's legislature...
On 3 October a letter was handed to the Parliamentary Speaker Jacob Mudenda (a ZANU-PF loyalist) recalling 20% (15 of 73) of the opposition MPs as they had 'seized' [sic] to be members of the party...
These 15 MPs elected to seats in Bulawayo and Matabeleland in the 23 August polls had been 'recalled' in a letter to the Speaker Jacob Mudenda from someone calling himself the 'interim Secretary-General of the CCC'...
Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda says that Benjamin Rukanda the supposed leader of yet another opposition faction of questionable legitimacy wrote to him asking for the MPs' recall...
Investigations began amid much jostling and confusion and now Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda has the Kasukuwere dossier...
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At the end a stunned Mugabe was instructed by Speaker Jacob Mudenda on the submission of MDC-T MP Nelson Chamisa to return for a question-and-answer session...
