Welshman Ncube reappears

MDC leader Welshman Ncube has reappeared on social media saying that people were mistaking his "strategic silence" was mistaken for "hibernation."

Ncube a permanent feature on the social media before the elections last year but coiled into his shell after the disastrous July 31 polls where his party failed to win a single seat.

On Saturday, the law professor resurrected his Facebook account, posting, "Strategic silence if often mistaken for hibernation."

In September last year, Ncube was forced to defend his silence and disappearance from the public scene saying he was restrategising.

 "I've not disappeared from anywhere. This time is for internal party work, including serious reflection and analysis as we seek greater understanding and new strategies. We are doing a lot of it," Ncube said then.

"When it is time to go outside party work and do public work, you will hear and see us. We don't communicate internal party conversations through the social media."

MDC at the time was in turmoil with the now expelled party's Matabeleland South provincial chairperson Petros Mukwena pushing for the immediate recall of secretary-general Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga from the National Assembly claiming her selection was irregular.

Misihairabwi-Mushonga was transferred to Matabeleland South from her initial Glen Norah constituency in Harare and subsequently included on the party's list for the women's quota in Parliament under the new proportional representation system.

She voted in Mawabeni, Umzingwane district, in the July 31 elections.