Fresh chaos rocks CCC

**Promise Mkwananzi, centre, addresses a press conference in Harare yesterday**

…. Mkwananzi threatens party deployees

Zm Now Writer

Fresh chaos has rocked the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change since the abrupt resignation of its leader, Nelson Chamisa, about a month ago, with rival factions making pronouncements and counter-pronouncements as party spokesperson Promise Mkwananzi threatened party deployees with expulsion.

Addressing a press conference in Harare yesterday, Mkwananzi trashed the Bulawayo pronouncements, saying they were null and void.

“We have also taken note of some of the rotten apples seeking to further the contamination within the party and its deployees. We have heard timid whispers emanating from Holiday Inn Bulawayo wherein one Jacob Mafume mischievously made pronouncements about the leadership of the CCC. We state categorically that the sad pronouncements are null and void and are not a representation of the collective wisdom and resolution of the citizens national assembly

“Mr Mafume is not authorised to speak for or on behalf of the party.

Mkwananzi allged that the Bulawayo meeting and subsequent pronouncements confirmed Mafume’s link to Sengezo Tshabangu and “their unlawful recalls”.

“His reference to the supposed link between the leadership of the MDC Alliance and the CCC is not only mischievous but is confirmation that he is no longer a member of the CCC,

Mkwananzi further threatened party deployees who may associate themselves with the Bulawayo meeting with expulsion from the party.

“Accordingly, any deployee or leader of CCC who associates themselves with this mischief will automatically cease to be a member of the party and the relevant political and legal consequences shall ensue,” Mkwananzi said.

The Bulawayo meeting saw Welshman Ncube being appointed acting CCC president on a rotational basis in an arrangement that will also see Tendai Biti and Lynette Karenyi-Kore also having their 90-day acting periods.

Interestingly, another faction of the CCC also made appointments made by Jameson Timba, who is referred to as he Chief Administrator and Leader of the Bureau of Administration in the CCC in charge of the day-to-day affairs of the party.

The appointments, which saw Cifford Hlathwayo being named as the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, was among many others made by Timba.

Chamisa resigned from the CCC over a month ago without notice, arguing that the opposition outfit had been infiltrated. He has been associated with the Blue Movement that was launched by Gift “Ostallos” Siziba and Amos Chibaya, who were both barred from contesting the February 3 by-elections by the courts.