Chamisa wants to over throw Tsvangirai - Mugabe aide

President Robert Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba has accused MDC-T national organising secretary Nelson Chamisa for harbouring ambitions to take over from party leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

In his weekly column under the pseudonym Nathaniel Manheru, Charamba said while it seemed that Chamisa was fighting in Tsvangirai's corner against the likes of MDC-T secretary general Tendai Biti and deputy treasure Elton Mangoma who are pushing for leadership renewal , he was positioning himself for a takeover.

"A worse rumble in Chamisa who appears to punch on the side of Tsvangirai when in reality he is clearing ground for his own ambition, a vaulting one if you ask me. Get it from me: Chamisa is not fighting to keep Tsvangirai," Charamba wrote in the column.

"He is fighting to depose him soonest, which is why the likes of Mangoma and Biti have to be stumped out, all in the name of saving Tsvangirai, ‘the face of the struggle'.

"Of course not many asked what it is that is behind that much vaunted face of struggle. Let me favour you with indicative titbits. Of course you have Chamisa whose bid seems pre-empted by claims that he is eyeing for Biti's secretary generalship.

"He denies, correctly too, for his aim is much higher and, when Biti's name is mentioned, Macbeth-like, Chamisa quips: "Thane of Cawdor!/That's a step/ On which I must stumble, or else overleap,/ For in my way it lies./ Stars, hide your fires,/ Let not light see my black and deep desires."

Charamba said It would  be a real setback if Chamisa has to vie for secretary generalship, "as that would mean he would have stumbled and "failed to overleap", failed to neutralise Biti beforehand.

"This is what all this bembera around Biti is all about: to rattle him and goad him into punishable excesses, in order to be rid of him, kangaroo style. But many outside and inside "the tent" have the same ambition, the same target."