While most of his followers stood behind him, one Chitova responded: “Which elections have you won nhai zviroto zviroto ngazviperere kudzimba kwenyu pliz. Even in mdc you refused to go to congress after Tsvangirai’s death why because you knew it that you won’t win over there so sit down.”
Another going by the name AfrikinAngel tweeted: “Mdc cannot use wat u hav and all u have shown is utter corruption in ur city councils shows that u are just waiting to climb onto the gravy train and not focused on real change, you have made zero changes except to plunge us deeper into poverty 800% increase in rates????”
Time, however, is ticking for the two men. They have only two years before the next elections. Chamisa’s empire seems to be crumbling and even he United States has accused Mnangagwa of trying to dismantle the MDC Alliance.
Some media reports have claimed that all is not well in Mnangagwa’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. This could very well be true, but Simba Mudarikwa once said that infighting within ZANU-PF was common and was a sign that the party was under no threat.
According to Wikileaks, Mudarikwa told United Sates embassy officials that ZANU-PF was badly fractured.
“It was like a stick of TNT, susceptible to ignition and disintegration. ZANU-PF was holding together because of the threat of MDC-T and foreign pressure. He likened ZANU-PF to a troop of baboons incessantly fighting among themselves, but coming together to face an external threat.”
Probably nobody knows this more than Mnangagwa. Maybe that is why he was prepared to accommodate people that were thought to be thoroughly corrupt or had been solidly behind G40, just to hold the party together.
Mnangagwa seems to be more confident now.
He tweeted a day after Chamisa’s tweet: “Zimbabweans, our roads are in a state of emergency. It pains me to see so many potholes on our once great highways.
“We must act urgently. Today my government committed ZW$33.6 billion to rapidly rehabilitate 10,000 kilometres of Zimbabwe’s roads
“I will not let you down.”
This could easily be rubbished as mere politicking. Only time will tell.
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