Former finance minister and co-vice president of the Citizens Alliance for Change, Tendai Biti, has quit the main opposition party, saying he is taking a sabbatical from politics while he goes on a soul-searching break.
Speaking on HSTV’s #FreeTalk programme, Biti, who was supposed to take over as CCC president from current leader Welshman Ncube on a rotational basis, said he had withdrawn from politics to focus on other areas that could help unseat the ruling Zanu PF party. Of power.
The outspoken former lawmaker has disavowed a statement by CCC spokesperson Jacob Mafume that he had held a meeting that agreed to appoint him, Ncube and Lynette Kirenyi Kor as rotating leaders of the party following the resignation of Nelson Chamisa from the CCC.
The opposition Communist Party Congress was left leaderless after Chamisa abandoned the party, which was destroyed by a self-imposed interim secretary-general, Singiso Chabangu, who recalled several lawmakers from parliament after last year’s general elections.
“Everyone has a constitutional right to control their own affairs, at the moment and at the moment, as Tendai Biti, I have taken time out in certain political places and spaces,” he said.
He added: “I am not sure which meeting you are referring to, and I am not aware of the meeting that made me rotating president.
After the announcement of the takeover of the CCC by Ncube, Biti and Kayerini Kore, there was a public backlash, with the three branded as traitors who had betrayed the struggle and jumped into bed with Zanu PF, an allegation Biti denied.
“As an individual, I occupy spaces, I’m a lawyer, and I do what I used to do in the courts, through strategic litigation.
“I’m busy writing, and I think we’ll have a book out before the end of the year about deconstructing liberation movements and so on.
“But as an individual, I’m also entitled to time off, etc. “So I’m in this full, I don’t want to say isolation, full time off if you want, but I’m still driven by the fact that we have to have a change,” Beatty said. Democratic in Zimbabwe.
The former lawmaker, who led the fight against corruption during his tenure as MP, called on Zimbabweans to take charge of the fight for democracy and not entrust their future to individuals.
“I don’t see the necessity or the urgency, we have normalized the abnormal. We accept the madness. They have come up with a new currency, it is business as usual.
“They’ve come up with a crazy budget, it’s business as usual. They’re handing out vehicles like confetti, it’s business as usual. They’re talking about a third term, it’s business as usual. It’s not good enough so I don’t see urgency, I don’t see strength.”
He said: “Collectively, I do not want to talk about political parties or individuals. I want to talk about our collective responsibility as citizens, and we must provide the ability and urgency.”
Biti’s move comes almost two weeks after Ncube told the media that he was having success in building a united opposition and that the party that Chamisa ousted would emerge stronger and more united.
However, another faction of the CCC led by Jameson Themba and fronted by its spokesman Promise Mkwananzi, said Biti’s resignation from the party and temporary withdrawal from politics was a vindication on their part.
“This move, if I am right, brother, continues to show that the CCC had only one legitimate leader in Nelson Chamisa, and any attempt to masquerade as an alternative leader will fail as Welshman Ncube showed. No one can doubt that Chamisa “He was the legitimate leader of the CCC and the recent developments validate our position.”
However, Biti promised recovery before 2028 when Zimbabwe is expected to hold its next general elections after President Emmerson Mnangagwa is serving his final term.
Tomorrow’s FreeTalk episode will air on HSTV’s YouTube channel at 5pm. Newsday
