FORMER opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, promised to unleash a new political wave in 2025 which he says will usher a new beginning before calling on his supporters and people of Zimbabwe to be patient.
Chamisa, who was technically forced to resign from the Citizens Coalition for Change party after a power grab by Sengezo Tshabangu, the party’s self-imposed interim secretary-general, almost spilled the beans on his next move, which he promised will be in the new year.
“Next year there are a lot of things that are coming, but we are going to announce them through appropriate channels and times, because if I share this at a charity event I would have failed. This is a charity dinner, that’s why you see I am restraining myself from laying out the plan. I have been restraining myself from talking about the plan,” said Chamisa, who was addressing his end of year charity dinner in Harare on Saturday night.
The dinner, where the cheapest ticket was being sold for US$50, was attended by top lawyers, pastors, civic society leaders and a few legislators from the CCC. The event aimed to raise money towards charity and the underprivileged ahead of Christmas.
Chamisa, who insisted that the charity event had nothing to do with politics, kept straying into the political realm, telling Zimbabweans the current political events are just a test of their resilience ahead of a tectonic shift.
“A lot of you see what is happening across the country, the political arena, the various facets of life and you get worried but you must actually get fortified because what we are going through is part of the instrumentation, fermentation and the distillation in the furnace to make sure that you are ready for what is supposed to be done, you don’t just wake up and serve without being tested,” said Chamisa.
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Having been deposed from the helm of MDC Alliance, which he led to the 2018 elections, Chamisa was again pushed out of CCC and is currently politically homeless although still with a demonstrable political base.
He told supporters that he has learnt from the past and will emerge stronger and smarter as he forges ahead with his quest to wrest political power and transform Zimbabwe into the hub of African business and development.
“We are national and we cannot be displaced from being national by small things, if you think you can dislodge us then you don’t know us, we are learning each other, we study where you have come (from) and taken advantage of us, then we come back with vigour, we know what you have done but we know what we are going to do to you,” he said.
He called on those waiting for his sign to be patient as he had them covered and had a bankable plan to transform Zimbabwe.
“Hold your horses, be patient, the new is coming and the new is not something small, it is big for this country and when I say there is going to be change in this country, I am not talking politics, I am speaking prophecy,” Chamisa said.
The former opposition leader accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of turning Zimbabwe into a country of poverty.
“Zimbabweans are in trouble, 49% of our people live in abject poverty, but almost every one of us lives in poverty, even professors, even engineers, even doctors, every one even businesspeople because of our circumstances, this is why we are trying in a way to give you a teaser as to what is going to come in a new Zimbabwe where we are going to have a citizen programme that caters for each and every citizen,” he said.