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By A Correspondent| A faction of war veterans opposed to the 2030 agenda has launched a scathing attack on opposition figure Nelson Chamisa, accusing him of failing to mobilise meaningful numbers for planned protests, leaving them stranded and uncertain on how to drive the demonstrations forward.<\/p>\n
Highly placed sources within the grouping said the ex-combatants, who have struggled to galvanise support within ZANU PF itself, had pinned their hopes on Chamisa to provide political momentum and public legitimacy to their campaign.<\/p>\n
However, insiders claim those expectations were left in tatters after Chamisa reportedly declined to be drawn into what he viewed as factional manoeuvring.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had overestimated their reach,\u201d a source familiar with the developments said. \u201cThere was an assumption that bringing in Chamisa would lend credibility and numbers to their cause, but he refused to be used as a pawn in internal Zanu PF issues. That refusal effectively left them exposed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another source added that attempts to build a broad-based front had faltered due to lack of cohesion and suspicion among the factions involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey simply could not build consensus even within their own ranks. The expectation that Chamisa would rescue their mobilisation efforts was misplaced from the outset,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n
The growing frustration has now spilled into the open, with one of the group\u2019s leaders, Winstone Sigauke Mapuranga, launching a scathing and unusually candid attack on Chamisa, questioning his silence on the contentious Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am a soldier. I deal in facts, in patterns, and in the kind of institutional pattern analysis that a lifetime of military intelligence work teaches you to apply when something does not add up.
Something does not add up.
And I will not pretend otherwise simply because saying so makes powerful people uncomfortable,\u201d Mapuranga said.<\/p>\n
He went further, invoking Chamisa\u2019s political standing and the expectations that come with it.<\/p>\n
\u201cNelson Chamisa is the most recognisable opposition figure in Zimbabwe. He is a man who built his entire political identity on the promise of democratic resistance on the proposition that he and his movement stood between the Zimbabwean people and the permanent entrenchment of one-party political dominance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mapuranga described Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 as a defining national moment, adding that Chamisa\u2019s muted stance was both conspicuous and troubling.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is precisely the kind of moment that Nelson Chamisa\u2019s entire political career was supposedly building toward. This is the hill that the opposition was always supposed to die on \u2014 loudly, visibly, and with the full mobilisation of every democratic resource at its disposal.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is Nelson Chamisa?
Not a major speech. Not a sustained public campaign. Not the kind of front-line democratic resistance that CAB3 demands and that Chamisa\u2019s own political biography would lead every reasonable observer to expect.
Silence. Measured, conspicuous, and to those of us who study political behaviour for a living \u2014 deeply, troublingly meaningful silence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Drawing on his military background, Mapuranga framed the situation in analytical terms.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn military intelligence we have a term for the absence of expected activity in a known operational area.
We call it a tactical withdrawal. And tactical withdrawals do not happen without a reason.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen an actor who has consistently and loudly occupied a political space suddenly vacates that space precisely when the stakes in that space are at their highest, the intelligence analyst\u2019s first question is never \u2018perhaps they simply changed their mind.\u2019 The first question is: what changed?\u201d<\/p>\n
He added:
\u201cWhat changed for Nelson Chamisa between his years of loud, sustained, front-line democratic resistance and his current studied silence on the most important constitutional question Zimbabwe has faced in a generation?<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not a court of law. I am not a prosecutor. I am not in a position to answer that question definitively and I will not pretend otherwise.
But I am a Zimbabwean soldier who swore an oath to this republic. And that oath requires me to ask the question publicly \u2014 loudly, on the record, and without apology.
What changed, Mr. Chamisa? What silenced you?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mapuranga also made explosive, though unverified, allegations regarding financial inducements in the political arena.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe CAB3 process is happening within that environment. And within that environment, questions about who is being resourced to do what and who is being resourced to do nothing are not paranoid conspiracy theorising.
They are legitimate, necessary, urgent questions of democratic accountability.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am aware that documents are circulating. I am aware that allegations are being made in various quarters about the financial dimensions of certain political actors\u2019 behaviour around CAB3. Today I am in a position to verify those documents or those allegations independently.
But I am in a position \u2014 and I feel the obligation \u2014 to say this:<\/p>\n
\u201cA huge corruption deal has caused democratic backsliding in Zimbabwe which is aiding CAB3. This was achieved by bribing of a top opposition leader Nero Chamisa who recieved a staggering amount to the tune of 5million dolars and necessitated \/laundered by one of the top law firms in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot speaking about the US$20 million that Nelson Chamisa pocketed as a pay off to go on a forced sabatical and move go mute on active politics until 2030.
The \u2018Gods\u2019 have favoured mukomana apart from the $20million.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the incendiary claims, political observers caution that the war veterans\u2019 outburst reflects, in part, their own strategic miscalculations and dwindling influence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reality is that they failed to mobilise both internally and externally,\u201d another source said. \u201cBlaming Chamisa now is an attempt to deflect from that failure.\u201d<\/p>\n
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