Staff Reporter
…As his new political party faces another battle
The Citizens Convergence for Change led by Varaidzo Musungo will soon be facing off in court against the Citizens Coalition for Change led by Chamisa, in a fight to reclaim its party insignia and colours that has been stolen by the latter.
This was revealed in a letter to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) warning them about their failure to acknowledge their party colours and insignia as seen in the ZEC Press Statement that used them to refer to Nelson Chamisa led – CCC, despite knowing that it was already being used by another party.
“We note that there is a new political party that you have referred to as ‘Citizens Coalition for Change’ and, in your Press Statement, you have given them the abbreviation ‘CCC’.
While we are still consulting our lawyers regarding the question whether ‘Citizens Coalition for Change’ is too close to our name to cause confusion to the reasonable voter, it is beyond question that there cannot be and you cannot accept, a new political party that uses the abbreviation CCC,” said Farai Zhou.
Zhou added that, “The abbreviation as notified to you as far back as 8 September 2021, belongs to our political party, and it is wrong for ZEC to consider that it can easily parcel it off to another entity.”
The Musungo - led CCC instructed ZEC to liaise with the Chamisa le- CCC to change their party colours and insignia.
“Kindly liaise with this political party and agree on a different abbreviation for them to use, which is not ours… Our lawyers will in fact file papers suing both ZEC and this usurper and ask for cost on the punitive scale,” Zhou said.
This is not the first time that Chamisa has stolen from other political parties. Soon after the death of Tsvangirai, he not only stole the name of the party, but also the MDC T party headquarters and the party accounts. He lost the battle to Douglas Mwonzora who was constitutionally elected as the head of the MDC T Alliance party. This forced him to form another party but it would seem he has no confidence in his own formations and favours to steal other parties’ good will.
