Biti dumps Welshman Ncube’s CCC

Zim Now Writer

Former Harare East legislator, who served as Finance Minister in the 2009-13 government of national unity, Tendai Biti, has dumped the Citizens Coalition for Change faction led by Professor Welshman Ncube, saying he is taking a sabbatical from politics.

The senior CCC politician, one of the vice presidents of the opposition party, who was scheduled to take over the rotating presidency of the faction after Prof Ncube’s 90-day stint said he is going on a soul-searching break.

Biti, who was speaking on HSTV’s #FreeTalk show, said he was focussing on other spaces that can help to remove the ruling Zanu PF party from power.

The former Finance minister disowned the statement by Jacob Mafume, who claimed to be CCC spokesperson then that he had agreed in a meeting that he, Prof. Ncube and Lynette Karenyi Kore will be rotational leaders of the party.

This followed former leader Nelson Chamisa’s abrupt resignation from the CCC in January.

“Everyone has a constitutional right of controlling his own affairs, at the present moment and time as Tendai Biti, I have taken a time out in certain spaces and political spaces,” he said.

“As an individual, I occupy spaces, I am a lawyer, I am doing what I have been doing in the courts, with my strategic litigation.

“I am busy writing, I think we are going to produce a book before the end of the year on unpacking liberation movements and so forth.

“But as an individual I am also entitled to rest, to have a sabbatical and so forth. So I am in that mode of complete, I don’t want to say isolation, complete time out if you like, but I still remain driven, by the fact that we must have democratic change in Zimbabwe,” Biti said.

However, Biti promised to bounce back before 2028 when Zimbabwean is expected to hold its next general elections.