{"id":57410,"date":"2022-04-12T20:56:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T18:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/former-mdc-t-members-ready-to-contest-for-ccc-positions"},"modified":"2022-04-12T23:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T21:00:50","slug":"former-mdc-t-members-ready-to-contest-for-ccc-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/former-mdc-t-members-ready-to-contest-for-ccc-positions","title":{"rendered":"Former MDC-T Members Ready To Contest For CCC Positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Former MDC-T members have expressed their readiness to contest for any position in CCC after the party\u2019s leaders said the political organisation is a new entity and accommodates everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary-general of the MDC-T faction formerly led by Thokozani Khupe, Nomvula Mguni on Monday told Southern Eye that the opposition should focus on uniting people. Said Mguni:<\/p>\n<p>No one can stop what happened on Saturday because it is for the people. Everyone needs change and we will contest any positions that will come up within CCC.<\/p>\n<p>We have been told that this is a new party and that we are starting afresh. People are the ones who elect others into positions.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday Khupe declared that she is now a CCC member after she attended a meeting addressed by CCC leader Nelson Chamisa at Bulawayo\u2019s McDonalds Hall in Makokoba.<\/p>\n<p>Some CCC Bulawayo provincial leaders have announced that they are not keen to work with Khupe.<\/p>\n<p>However, Southern Eye reported CCC sources as saying Khupe was welcomed by members of the opposition party as she sat with the crowds.<\/p>\n<p>Chamisa on Saturday told his members that his party will soon convene an elective congress to choose its leaders.<\/p>\n<p>It is, however, not clear if former MDC-T members will be allowed to contest for positions at the envisaged CCC elective congress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Former MDC-T members have expressed their readiness to contest for any position in CCC after the party\u2019s leaders said the political organisation is a new entity and accommodates everyone. The secretary-general of the MDC-T faction formerly led by Thokozani Khupe, Nomvula Mguni on Monday told Southern Eye that the opposition should focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":57409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,10,15],"tags":[1493,2189,9432,1520,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-57410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-parties","11":"category-twitter","12":"tag-africa-press","13":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","14":"tag-nomvula-mguni","15":"tag-thokozani-khupe","16":"tag-zimbabwe"},"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>Former MDC-T Members Ready To Contest For CCC Positions - 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