{"id":24304,"date":"2020-06-14T20:36:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T18:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=24304"},"modified":"2020-06-14T20:36:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T18:36:06","slug":"mashakada-speaks-on-chamisas-elevation-of-fadzayi-mahere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mashakada-speaks-on-chamisas-elevation-of-fadzayi-mahere","title":{"rendered":"Mashakada Speaks On Chamisa\u2019s Elevation Of Fadzayi Mahere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MDC Alliance secretary for policy and research Tapiwa Mashakada has criticised the \u2018unilateral\u2019 decision by the party leader Nelson Chamisa to elevate Fadzayi Mahere to the post of party spokesperson when she has less than five years since joining the party.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking during a live interview on SlyMedia\u2019s Facebook platform during which he claimed that Chamisa now surrounds himself with an autocratic cabal, comprised of former student leaders, which will not allow him to go to the extra-ordinary Congress. Mashakada added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I thought we were right, but once the Supreme Court ruled, we have to abide by the court judgment. (The late Morgan) Tsvangirai would have done the same.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rB142AJc\">\n<blockquote><p>We made a strategic error to catapult Chamisa to be leader of the party without then going to an extra-ordinary Congress. It was a fatal error.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He added that it was immature to continue saying President Mnangagwa was illegitimate saying what was essential was to push him to deliver change to the people of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Oq01QYfR\">\n<div class=\"ad-links-inside\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MDC Alliance secretary for policy and research Tapiwa Mashakada has criticised the \u2018unilateral\u2019 decision by the party leader Nelson Chamisa to elevate Fadzayi Mahere to the post of party spokesperson when she has less than five years since joining the party. He was speaking during a live interview on SlyMedia\u2019s Facebook platform during which he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[113,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-24304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-parties","9":"tag-chamisa","10":"tag-mdc"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mashakada Speaks On Chamisa\u2019s Elevation Of Fadzayi Mahere - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MDC Alliance secretary for policy and research Tapiwa Mashakada has criticised the \u2018unilateral\u2019 decision by the party leader Nelson Chamisa to elevate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mashakada-speaks-on-chamisas-elevation-of-fadzayi-mahere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mashakada Speaks On Chamisa\u2019s Elevation Of Fadzayi Mahere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MDC Alliance secretary for policy and research Tapiwa Mashakada has criticised the \u2018unilateral\u2019 decision by the party leader Nelson Chamisa to elevate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mashakada-speaks-on-chamisas-elevation-of-fadzayi-mahere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-14T18:36:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/03\/Part-of-the-crowd-chanting-MDC-slogans.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"550\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mashakada-speaks-on-chamisas-elevation-of-fadzayi-mahere\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mashakada-speaks-on-chamisas-elevation-of-fadzayi-mahere\",\"name\":\"Mashakada Speaks On Chamisa\u2019s Elevation Of Fadzayi Mahere - 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