Nelson Chamisa’s capitulation and the future of opposition politics in Zimbabwe
By Youngerson Matete and Liam Takura Kanhenga On the 25th of January, 2024 advocate Nelson Chamisa walked away from the Citizen’s Coalition for Change (CCC). In a thirteen-page statement Mr Chamisa announced that he is resigning as the President of a party he founded almost 2 years ago citing both infection and infiltration of the party by rogue elements working in cohort with the ruling party. He claimed that the party had been hijacked by ZANU-PF using some senior leaders hence it is now contaminated that it is no longer the right vehicle to dislodge ZANU-PF from power hence he had to walk away. His resignation came as a result of the internal contradictions and conflicts that had been occurring since October 2023 when the Citizen Coalition for Change self-proclaimed Secretary General Sengezo Tshabangu instigated mass recalls of the opposition party's members of parliament, senators, and councilors claiming that they had ceased to be members of the party. The resignation of