Zim Eye
By Carl Mhlanga
1 October 2013
University of Zimbabwe professor Lovemore Madhuku at the weekend sent thunderous shockwaves into ZANU PF and MDC parties after launching his party converted from the original NCA organisation.
Madhuku’s actions caused ZANU PF and MDC parties to rally against the National Constitutional Assembly chair labeling him a spectrum of names from ‘opportunist’ to ‘traitor’.
As criticism from various quarters of Zimbabwean society kept pouring in, MDC (Welshman Ncube) Legal Secretary David Coltart took his turn to blast Madhuku. As thousands of Zimbabweans took turns to digitally slap Madhuku, Coltart said the professor should have sought to consolidate opposition parties rather than start another one.
Said Coltart:â€I recognise his democratic right to form a party but my view is that we should not be forming new parties but consolidating existing ones.â€
Meanwhile Madhuku was labelled an opportunist by Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party. The ZANU PF aligned Political analyst Mr Tinei Nyatsambo said Madhuku was falsely claiming to be pan Africanist. Nyatsambo used the word ‘ambush’ to describe what he claimed Madhuku was set to do.
The NCA is trying to ambush Zimbabweans by claiming to be a nationalist party that pursues the values of Pan– Africanism, yet its grand agenda was to capitalise on the weaknesses of the ailing opposition MDC-T to access Western donor funds,’’ Nyatsambo said.
Meanwhile some readers said that Mahuku’s entry into politics was appropriate as he could turn out to be success. Wrote one Facebooker,
“Vakomana musashora mbodza neinozvimbira vana Tboy vakatanga vachingoshorwa saizvozvi asi akambonetsa wani jus give him a chance n cee wat ar his plans to the nation,wish u gud luck man but don’t forget its hard to rule Zimbabwe“