Political Reporter
There was a near fist fight between Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) female members in Gwanda during a Provincial meeting as factional combats in the opposition party escalate ahead of the upcoming by-elections, Harare Post can exclusively report.
A source within the CCC revealed to this publication that the CCC Matebeleland South Province failed to select the woman proportional representative members for National Assembly candidates following serious contestations within that party.
According to the source, female CCC members castigated the continued selection of same members to be seconded to Parliament instead of rotating people.
The aggrieved women in Matebeleland South were up in arms with one Nomathemba Ndlovu whom they were accusing of being favoured by that party leader Nelson Chamisa. The women argued that Ndlovu should not contest in the upcoming by-elections as she has already served two terms and they wanted her to pave way for other capable members.
According to the source, Ndlovu told the disgruntled women that they didn’t have the capacity to be in Parliament as they were not educated. Ndlovu added that the women in that Province had no right to contest her candidature as she had Chamisa’s blessings. This irked the women who angrily charged towards Ndlovu who had to seek refuge in her vehicle.
The source added that the CCC women besieged Ndlovu’s vehicle, while shouting some obscenities towards her. It took Women’s Assembly Provincial Secretary Jemina Sibanda to calm the angry members down.
After the tempers had cooled, Sibanda addressed the women and castigated the CCC’s habit of choosing members even at Ward level. She said that the CCC party should let members to freely choose their parliamentary representatives instead of handpicking them.
Meanwhile, in Zvishavane Ngezi, CCC members aborted that party’s Constituency Coordinating Committee workshop due to disagreements among participants.
The disagreements started when Constituency Coordinating Committee director, Peter Hove gave a directive that polling agents should collect and forward voter registration slips of first time voters to him. Other members disagreed with Hove as they declared the directive to be illegal and unconstitutional. When Hove insisted on his directive, members then decided to abandon the workshop and left the venue leaving Hove and a few of his allies.
