Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and his party seem to be ready to change its name and rebrand to avoid calculated chaos and confusion ahead of nomination of candidates for crucial by-elections on 26 January. The by-elections will be held on 26 March.
In a cryptic yet telling message on social media this morning, Chamisa says he has heard what the people have said and there will be a "New Way" and "New Wave" coming to deliver change at the right moment.
"GET READY FOR VICTORY…
We have heard you.We listened and it shall be done as per your command and demand.Timing &strategy is everything.THE NEW WAY.THE NEW WAVE. It’s time for CHANGE.Let’s teach them a lesson. You’re the game changers; we’re unstoppable.#ChoosetheNew," he says.
The ruling Zanu PF in cahoots with the smaller opposition MDC-T are plotting to destroy the MDC Alliance which is giving them sleepless nights ahead of the crirical by-elections and 2023 general elections.
The unholy alliance between Zanu PF and MDC-T has now become common cause.

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14 Jan
The main opposition MDC Alliance's move to change its name and rebrand will bury Zimbabwe's biggest opposition and one of the largest in Africa - the MDC - founded in 1999 by trade unionists led by the late Morgan Tsvangirai and others, with its history, struggle and legacy.
If smaller opposition MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora and his party remain as the only remnant of the original MDC, that will mark the end of that party as they are seen as an appendage of Zanu PF more opposed to the opposition than the ruling party, not a genuine opposition party.
This means and indicates the MDC in its various forms and manifestations would not for the time since 2000 be the main opposition and a threat to Zanu PF.
The party that will rise from the ashes of the MDC under Nelson Chamisa - whatever its name - would be the main opposition.
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13 Jan
Zimbabwe's buccaneering political actor Jonathan Moyo has continued to expose the opposition MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora's legally and politically fraudulent entitlement claims that his party is also the MDC Alliance by virtue of an expired electoral pact ahead of by-elections.
"In a shocking 3 Jan 2022 letter to @ZECzim, @OurMDCT President @DMwonzora says his party will contest 26 March 2022 by-elections as MDC-Alliance, of which he falsely says he's the President, allegedly based on the 2017 Alliance pre-2018 election pact!," Moyo tweeted once again.
"If allowed by @ZECzim or the courts to appease @edmnangagwa; the quest by Hon @DMwonzora & his @OurMDCT to contest the 26 March 2022 by-elections as MDC-A would confirm Zim as a PARIAH STATE. The quest has no basis in the expired 2017 multiparty pact!
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13 Jan
#ByElections26March
The chaos has begun. MDC-T Secretary for Special Projects and Party Business Norest Marara already campaigning under the MDC Alliance name, led by Nelson Chamisa and not his own leader Douglas Mwonzora, to confuse voters and reap votes from the popular brand.
Mwonzora and his MDC-T party say they are going to compete in the 26 March by-elections as MDC Alliance electoral pact when the pre-2018 elections agreement by that name has now expired and the only MDC Alliance currently existing is Chamisa's popular party.
There is a difference between the MDC Alliance electoral pact - officially known as the Composite Political Cooperation Agreement - and the MDC Alliance party led by Chamisa.
The electoral pact was signed in 2017, but automatically dissolved in 2018. The party was formed in 2019.
Read 4 tweets
13 Jan
Zimbabwean former minister and MP Jonathan Moyo says MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora can't use the name MDC Alliance that belongs to Nelson Chamisa's party as the pre-2018 elections pact which led to the MDC Alliance poll deal has expired. MDC Alliance only became a party in 2019.
Before 2019, there was no party called MDC Alliance, there was only an electoral pact called the MDC Alliance which expired soon after the 2018 elections.
The deal was only going to subsist after the elections if the coalition had won, but it automatically dissolved upon defeat.
So this means the electoral pact which Mwonzora is talking about is now non-existent. However, Chamisa's MDC Alliance party, formed in 2019, is there. Mwonzora doesn't belong to it.
Mwonzora is MDC-T President; can't be leader of two parties at the same time as he purports to be.
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12 Jan
Freelance journalist and one of The NewsHawks' correspondents Marry Mundeya was detained by police at Harare Central Police Station for more than one-and-a-half hours, after being arrested while covering a demonstration by teachers at NSSA, despite having a valid press card. ImageImage
She was released after the intervention of Zimbabwe Lawyers For Human Rights lawyer Tinashe Chinopfukutwa. Despite showing them her press card the police officers who arrested her claimed "hatigoni kuverenga", meaning we can not read.
The police officers confiscated her phone, microphone and tripod. Later an officer who appeared to be in charge of the team, took her press card but said she was under arrest because the card had expired.
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12 Jan
With major by-elections around the corner in Zimbabwe, the explosive political plot by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and smaller opposition MDC-T under Douglas Mwonzora to destroy the main opposition MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa, Mnangagwa’s bitter rival, is in full swing. ImageImageImage
The root of the plot is the late founding MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai's death in February 2018.
When Tsvangirai died there was no clear succession plan; he had three deputies, the elected one Thokozani Khupe, considered heir, and two appointed ones Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri.
After Tsvangirai's death before the 2018 elections inevitably a succession problem exploded. Khupe laid claimed on the party leadership which was widely considered legitimate as she was the only elected deputy, but this was fiercely contested by the other co-vice-presisents.
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