By Josiah Mucharowana- The South African based President of the Progressive People’ s Party of Zimbabwe( PPPZ) Pastor Timothy Chiguvare envisage a massive discipleship in the forthcoming 2023 elections thanks to recent divisions that have rocked the main opposition giant MDC- A.

The developments comes following the emergency of a breakaway splinter party led by Thokozani Khupe and  Douglas Mwonzora.

Speaking from his Pretoria base, Chiguvare said this is a very ‘interesting development’.

” Zimbabweans now see the PPPZ president as their last hope , because the main opposition has been captured in Zimbabwe , the G40 of ZANU- PF now having control of the MDC-A and the current ruling party ZANU- PF of ED Mnangagwa and its  army generals now have control of the MDC-T”

 “All the supporters of those two  camps are confused and now rallying behind the PPPZ president being part of the big PPPZ family.” he said.

” It is also interesting because we have to take advantage of the mistakes or errors of the two MDCs and take millions of people from both camps of the MDC and ZANU PF because they are all divided,” he said.

Zimbabweans, he said are now coming aboard the ‘PPPZ Glorious Victory Train’, a term he said runs as a theme in the forthcoming November protests mearnt to pile pressure on the Harare administration to stop unwarranted abductions, unlawful arrests of opposition activists, journalists and lawyers.

 The pastor- cum politician Chiguvare  said  two MDC camps namely the MDC-A and MDC -T have teamed-up with  Zanu PF leaders whose assets in South Africa and other nations are going to be frozen because of ZANU- PF’s massive corruption and looting of state funds.

His call comes at the back of a spirited effort by former Joburg Mayor Herman Mashaba who recently launched his opposition party set to contest South Africa’ s next general elections. Mashaba exhorted South African leadership to adopt a tough stance on the Harare rulership to help ease it’s stranglehold on power that has made life for ordinary citizens very tough.

Mashaba, a confirmed anti – foreigner opposition politician is set to hit the ground running, fighting it out for political relevance in South Africa’ s discourse where EFF’ s populist Julius Malema enjoys a fair share of attention, slowly becoming a household name in black communities previously disadvantaged by the vagaries of apartheid that officially ended in 1994 with Nelson Mandela fresh from 27- year-prison life assuming the reigns of government.

” The two MDC camps are longer fit to represent the suffering people of Zimbabwe because of their relationship with the  G40 leaders of Zanu PF and the corrupt leaders of the ruling party Zanu PF , their association with the corrupt and  divided factions Zanu PF has delayed regime change in Zimbabwe,” he said.

The PPPZ is currently angaged in mass mobilisation of Zimbabweans resident in South Africa to make a contribution politically back in Zimbabwe by agitating for change by however means.

The party is riding on the promise of employment creation for Zimbabwe’s graduates as it’s foremost priority. It is hoping to revamp and inject fresh impetus in the agricultural sector which has potential to employ millions by running training programmes aimed at boosting agricultural production of both local and foreign markerts.

Currently, the Zimbabwean leadership envisage to grow agricultural activities into an US 8,2 billion sector by 2025.

Before the rather chaotic and controversial land redistribution excercise championed by the late anti-imperialist stalwart Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe was touted as the bread basket of Southern Africa sufficiently feeding it’s populace as well as raking millions of revenue from agricultural exports ranging from beef, grain,  horticulture, epiculture products mainly to Europe.

Today, it is a pale shadow of its former self with the UN World Food Programme declaring millions of Zimbabweans in need of food aid.

Millions of the economically active youths have since skipped boarders citing political persecution and an economy in doldrums to go and work as menial labour in foreign lands especially South Africa and Botswana leaving scarce manpower to till the land.

PPPZ’ s Chiguvare is also on record promising free education for primary learners owing to high levels of poverty. Education, he says is key to unlocking the full potential of the country.

Zimbabwe used to boast a higher literacy rate on the continent with the then erstwhile struggle icon Mugabe the torch- bearer in providing free and affordable education to the youths.