DEFECTIONS, LESSONS and REFLECTIONS
The Zimbabwean citizens have become accustomed to a particular trend, in the never ending festive of absurdities that has characterized MDC politics since the demise of Morgan Richard Tsvangirai in February 2018. A detailed recollection of what transpired, up to the Supreme Court Judgement of 2020 serves no purpose to this opinion piece. The long and short of it all is that the judgement once again split the MDC into two factions, the weaker one reconfiguring as the MDC-T, while the larger one continued to trend as the MDC- ALLIANCE. But to indulge the reader on the “particular trend” highlighted earlier, the drama that has seen counter claims of ownership of the party name, elected officials, party property, with Leaders crossing floors between the two factions, now distinct parties. Yet what has caught many by surprise, has been the defection to ZanuPF, of two big wigs from the two parties, Senator Temvious and Hon Blessed Chebundo, MDC stalwarts of repute, until recently. Defectio