2] When the reaction to the judgement was treated as academic & moot by both Justice Partel & the Leadership that now identify as MDC-A, you went out of your way forcing compliance.
You however conveniently ignored the challenges associated with doing the same.
Few issues...
3] Both of you are ignoring that the SC judgement gave MaKhupe & #Komichi tasks to do within the framework of the MDC-T party.
Their first mandate was to engage the so called 2014 MDC-T Leadership.
The judgement doesn't self implement.
It equally can't be implemented by 3 pple.
4] The fact that #MaKhupe has not called for a "legal" NC meeting promoting a petition from an "illegal" NC gathering, is quite exposing.
Now you have 3 people who for all intent & purposes, have become the 2014 MDC-T.
How did they decide the EOC dates without key NC meetings?
5] When those people argue that 2014 MDC-T doesn't exist,they dont mean the then Leaders are dead.
They are simply saying,we are there, but we have moved on.
Its the judgement which forces people who are calling themselves MDC-A to go back to being 2014 MDC-T.
Who is at fault?
6] Then there is the #Mwonzora option, that those who have joined MDC-A should do so, with the EOC proceeding nevertheless.
Respectfully, this is nonsensical.
Only delegates from the last Ordinary Congress can use their mandate to run a EOC.
If that fails, its not a EOC.
7] #Mwonzora, regardless of how smart he can be, he cannot use anyone besides office bearers from the last Ordinary Congress of the MDC-T, for the purpose of the EOC.
It is only when you go for a Ordinary Congress where lower structures elect new Leadership.
If not, its bogus
8] Then again, #Mwonzora misleadingly claims he has been given a 3 months extension to his expired mandate.
Fair enough
So past the EOC, which only elects a President, what happens to #Mwonzora's 3 months extended mandate as SG?
Who will this new President lead with?
9] The EOC only made sense before the expiration of the mandate of those who can legally participate.
The ruling would have made sense had it arrived before October 2019.
Now in 2020, it will only cause this confusion & bickering.
1. Admittedly, when I first read the "structured currency" headline, I thought the Harare regime was taking its "structures" propaganda too far.
With the benefit of more research on the topic, I'm now totally convinced the Harare regime is indeed taking its propaganda too far.
2. By definition, a structured currency is "structured" in that it's supposedly backed by both mineral reserves (in our case gold) and trust in government's monetory policies & regulations.
Unfortunately, no one believes any of the two are present in our existing circumstances.
3. Part of why all previous gimmicks have failed is a trust deficit.
Even if the government opts to accuse commentators of being alarmists, causing panick and despondency, no one can be faulted for rushing to withdraw their forex savings if we have learned anything from history.
1. Imagine trying to make sense of how some 4 gentlemen in Bulawayo can randomly claim, 'we have recalled Amos Chibaya, he has ceased being a member of CCC'.
Outside the influence of social media, many only know about #CCC because of the efforts of this indefatigable organizer.
2. Propaganda has to make some sort of sense.
Even where some decide to hide behind the claim of "a traceable history in the struggle," Chibaya would make the mark.
A devoted organizer during the times of Tsvangirai & even more so, during the times of Chamisa under the MDC-A.
3. For the successive elections between 2018-2023, it's a mystery how Chibaya found the passion to abandon the comfort of his home and the herculean energy to traverse the country, organizing the Opp for electoral triumph.
Chibaya is very much unheralded & doesn't seem to care.
1. So, a group of at least 25 individuals have decided to join nonexistent forces under the otherwise much heralded #NERA banner to push for electoral reforms.
It's difficult to even identify them as political leaders because they don't represent any political constituency.
2. If you review the outcome of the controversial 2023 election, these people combined had fewer votes than the Councilors who won your ward election.
Many of them have never even bothered to field candidates in successive elections but only pop up whenever they sense a need.
3. If you were to profile them, there is one Lucia Matibenga, masquerading as PDP President.
Her "party" never contests.
She only temporarily enjoyed limelight under PDP when Sen Mwonzora brought her as his MDC-A partner before they connived to recall MPs elected under Chamisa.
1. Interesting comment on this unfolding drama by Prof Ncube.
I, however, can't help recognize the continued conflation of politics & law, which I've previously written about, regarding the formation of CCC party from MDC-A.
It's quite strange that BaNcube does the same here.
2. I take notice of @Welshman_Ncube choice of words here.
He says: MDC-A party's "...National Council resolved to reconstitute itself as CCC..."
By definition, when you "reconstitute," you simply restore or build up again, using remaining parts of whatever has been destroyed.
@Welshman_Ncube 3. However, it was a legal nulity not only for MDC-A to 'reconstitute' itself but to even meet & make legally binding resolutions to begin with.
In 2020, Justice Chitapi ruled that the MDC-A party wasn't a legal persona, effectively meaning it wasn't a legally constituted party.
1. We need to accept that we've seen enough to conclude we've no justice system in Zimbabwe.
Perhaps it's time to totally (temporarily) abandon seeking judicial recourse, particularly around political issues
Why continue subjecting ourselves to the wig wearing ZanuPF activists!
2. Let me rationalize this personal view:
Firstly, we are simply patronizing the generality of the citizens by arguing that going to these "captured courts" is an important academic exercise that exposes judicial capture.
What has been the consequence of exposing this capture?
3. ZanuPF's reaction to the damning SADC Observer Mission report is evidence enough that they don't react to "embarrassment" by showing restraint.
ZanuPF chose rather to burn SADC through an unprecedented propaganda offensive and direct confrontation with the Zambia government.