Pyramid scheme politics: High hopes, low returns and the frustration.
Why the country is failing to move away from Nelson Chamisa It is going to be difficult for us as a country to move away from Nelson Chamisa. He is charismatic. He is the man of the moment even when he is currently not in the arena. That’s how influential he is. Forget about the other guys currently leading the CCC or any other opposition leader for that matter. They are ‘villains’ in the Zimbabwean story. It is disingenuous to think that Chamisa suddenly becomes a nobody in our politics because he resigned from the CCC, his brainchild. First of all, we should come to terms with the fact that, whilst he resigned from the CCC, he did not resign from politics, he is just on a political sabbatical. This is clear in his speeches. This is where it gets interesting because our relationship with Chamisa as a country is complex and has a history: We entered into a political relationship with him which in hindsight has proven to be a toxic one . This is typica...