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The opposition's US craze

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Credit: @nelsonchamisa Official twitter account https://twitter.com/nelsonchamisa AS Zimbabwe approaches a month since the infamous November 15 Coup ‘d’état, I can’t help but share my disgust and dismay at the actions of the MDC -T and the opposition team that travelled to the US this week.  Nelson Chamisa’s official twitter account stated that they were on a vital global advocacy and diplomatic outreach and their focus was repositioning opposition and global coalition for free and fair elections in 2018. It is rather naïve and insincere for Tendai Biti, Dewa Mavhinga and Nelson Chamisa to travel to the US to lobby for free and fair elections in Zimbabwe as condition to receiving assistance for debt relief in the country. It would have been more reasonable if these opposition figures had consulted with the regime in power before rushing to the US. It is high time Zimbabweans chose their own political path without relying on the US or UK intervention. Did we not r...