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Zim opposition parties fail to take advantage of Zanu-PF troubles
19 Feb 2015 at 11:41hrs | Views
THE ruling Zanu-PF party, currently beleaguered with internal storms, continues to hog the limelight on the country's political stage while opposition parties teeter on the sidelines without any real impact in the grand scheme of citizens' lives.
A possible round of litigation currently hangs over the revolutionary party as disgruntled senior party leaders led by outspoken former secretary of administration Didymus Mutasa are set to challenge the authenticity of the Zanu-PF congress held last December.
All the leading opposition political parties have seemingly played deaf and dumb to the effect that Zanu-PF's instability is having on the nation, concerning themselves only with internal party affairs.
The two splinters of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Welshman Ncube and Sekai Holland are wrapped up with preparations for an upcoming joint congress in August where their unification is set to be consummated.
Holland's MDC Renewal Team will hold its maiden congress in April before the joint August congress.
The country's largest opposition party, the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai, has been waxing lyrical for weeks about putting together a national convergence indaba, a position which elicited a strong backlash from the MDC Renewal Team which claimed that its rivals had hijacked its grand plan.
Other political outfits such as Simba Makoni's Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn, Dumiso Dabengwa's ZAPU and the National Constitutional Assembly led by Lovemore Madhuku have been off the political radar long before Zanu-PF's implosion reached its current levels.
The upheavals within the opposition camp dent the prospect that these respective political players could suddenly emerge from the woodworks and give Zanu-PF a good run for its money.
Political observers say the inability of the opposition to cash in on the Zanu-PF instability was a sign itself that the opposition was still in disarray and did not have a concise plan of action.
A possible round of litigation currently hangs over the revolutionary party as disgruntled senior party leaders led by outspoken former secretary of administration Didymus Mutasa are set to challenge the authenticity of the Zanu-PF congress held last December.
All the leading opposition political parties have seemingly played deaf and dumb to the effect that Zanu-PF's instability is having on the nation, concerning themselves only with internal party affairs.
The two splinters of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Welshman Ncube and Sekai Holland are wrapped up with preparations for an upcoming joint congress in August where their unification is set to be consummated.
Holland's MDC Renewal Team will hold its maiden congress in April before the joint August congress.
The country's largest opposition party, the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai, has been waxing lyrical for weeks about putting together a national convergence indaba, a position which elicited a strong backlash from the MDC Renewal Team which claimed that its rivals had hijacked its grand plan.
Other political outfits such as Simba Makoni's Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn, Dumiso Dabengwa's ZAPU and the National Constitutional Assembly led by Lovemore Madhuku have been off the political radar long before Zanu-PF's implosion reached its current levels.
The upheavals within the opposition camp dent the prospect that these respective political players could suddenly emerge from the woodworks and give Zanu-PF a good run for its money.
Political observers say the inability of the opposition to cash in on the Zanu-PF instability was a sign itself that the opposition was still in disarray and did not have a concise plan of action.
Source - fingaz
