{"id":86340,"date":"2023-11-07T11:04:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T09:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-is-our-leader-not-tshabangu-mahere"},"modified":"2023-11-07T14:31:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T12:31:04","slug":"chamisa-is-our-leader-not-tshabangu-mahere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-is-our-leader-not-tshabangu-mahere","title":{"rendered":"Chamisa Is Our Leader, Not Tshabangu &#8211; Mahere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Citizens\u2019 Coalition for Change (CCC) MP <b>Fadzayi Mahere<\/b> has affirmed her allegiance to the party\u2019s beleaguered leader Nelson Chamisa after a recent court ruling upheld Sengezo Tshabangu\u2019s authority to recall the party\u2019s Members of Parliament and Councillors.<\/p>\n<p>CCC MPs have been under pressure from some political commentators to denounce the party\u2019s self-proclaimed interim secretary general (Tshabangu) after the party\u2019s 14 MPs and 09 Senators failed to overturn their expulsion from parliament.<\/p>\n<p>High Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi, in a judgement released on Saturday, dismissed the recalled MPs\u2019 application to be reinstated.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on Twitter, Mahere, who is Mt Pleasant MP, said the recalls by Tshabangu are \u201can affront to the Constitution\u201d and an insult to voters. She said:<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know Tshabangu. I\u2019ve never met him. What he\u2019s done is an affront to the Constitution &amp; an insult to the will of the people.<\/p>\n<p>Those recalls are fraudulent and underpinned by a desire to create a one-party state. No person driven by values can support this or side with a friend of the oppressor.<\/p>\n<p>What I do know is that President [Nelson Chamisa] is our leader.<\/p>\n<p>Mahere, who is also the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Science and Technology Development, risks being recalled after Tshabangu warned that those who were elected \u201cillegally\u201d will be expelled.<\/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. Citizens\u2019 Coalition for Change (CCC) MP Fadzayi Mahere has affirmed her allegiance to the party\u2019s beleaguered leader Nelson Chamisa after a recent court ruling upheld Sengezo Tshabangu\u2019s authority to recall the party\u2019s Members of Parliament and Councillors. CCC MPs have been under pressure from some political commentators to denounce the party\u2019s self-proclaimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":86339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[1493,2189,15359,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-86340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-africa-press","10":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","11":"tag-ccc-recalls","12":"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>Chamisa Is Our Leader, Not Tshabangu - Mahere - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizens\u2019 Coalition for Change (CCC) MP Fadzayi Mahere has affirmed her allegiance to the party\u2019s beleaguered lea ...\" \/>\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\/chamisa-is-our-leader-not-tshabangu-mahere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chamisa Is Our Leader, Not Tshabangu - 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