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MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has suffered a blow in Bulawayo after four members chosen as party candidates for the March 26 by-elections declined the offer and pledged their allegiance to a faction led by deputy president Thokozani Khupe. Dorcas Nyoni from ward 19 in Magwegwe, former councillor Sheilla Musonda and Annie Nyathi both from Makokoba…
The pro-Movement for Democratic Change element of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions took control of the labour movement at its congress when Lovemore Matombo was elected president and Wellington Chibhebhe secretary-general. There had been fears that the pro-Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front element led by acting secretary-general Isidore Zindoga might win. Zindoga had insisted.
MDC-T hopefuls face off in crunch meeting
BY STAFF REPORTER
MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe and acting secretary general faced off in a stormy meeting yesterday to resolve the dispute over the voters roll to be used at the party’s extraordinary meeting slated for this weekend.
The opposition party postponed its congress last weekend to this Sunday after the principals failed to agree on a voters roll to be used.
Mwonzora allegedly tried to sneak in a doctored voters roll staffed with names of his backers who were not part of the 2014 structures, that according to the Supreme Court ruling in March, have to convene the elective congress to replace the late founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Thokozani Khupe
A meeting of MDC-T bigwigs on Monday resolved that the party uses a voters roll of the 2014 structures at the extraordinary congress that was supplied to the party by suspended organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe.
The party’s interim president Thokozani Khupe allegedly rejected a doctored voters roll availed by secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora and staffed with names of his backers who were not part of the 2014 structures.
The MDC-T postponed its congress last weekend to this Sunday after the principals failed to agree on a voters roll to be used.
Yesterday’s meeting was attended by all presidential aspirants, that is, Khupe, acting chairman Morgen Komichi, Mwonzora and former organising secretary Elias Mudzuri and each of the four presidential candidates was accompanied by two election agents.