His former party colleague Douglas Mwonzora now the head of a government-backed breakaway faction continues to insist that his party is the real MDC Alliance and that it will use the party name and logo (AC Vol 62 No 7 Gutting the opposition)...
Chamisa faces heavy obstacles between now and the 2023 election not least the hijacking of a large section his party and assets by his former comrade Douglas Mwonzora in a move supported not so discreetly by the government (AC Vol 62 No 7 Gutting the opposition)...
Douglas Mwonzora the leader of this faction says he is a pursuing a new style of opposition politics calling it 'rational disputation'...
Further divisions opened up when Khupe in turn was defeated at the December 2020 party congress by former MDC-T Secretary-General Douglas Mwonzora...
In December political veteran Douglas Mwonzora defeated Khupe in elections for the leadership of her faction of the MDC after which he appointed her deputy leader...
Without a political resolution to these legal fights – such as leader of main MDC-A faction Nelson Chamisa reaching out to Khupe and her new ally Douglas Mwonzora in MDC-T – the opposition parties will be badly divided as they go into the 2023 elections...
The party will hold its congress in October and there are already signs of discord between current president Chamisa backed by a strong cohort of young opposition activists and party militia and older more established MDC leadership figures such as Elias Mudzuri and Douglas Mwonzora...
According to Secretary-General Douglas Mwonzora the MDC-T leadership had agreed to postpone discussions about succession until after the burial...
The MDC-T Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora confirmed this saying the MDC-T had realised that it had the numbers to confront ZANU-PF while other opposition parties claimed numbers 'which they don't have'...
Douglas Mwonzora the Spokesman for Premier Morgan Tsvangirai’s faction of the Movement for Democratic Change challenged ZANU-PF to reveal the source of the funds or stand accused of pilfering earnings from the diamond fields...