Can opposition leader Nelson Chamisa turn the yellow movement into votes?

Chamisa and his Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party have survived everything thrown at them. This includes rival parties working in cahoots with the state to snatch their party resources; judges’ adverse rulings; abductions of party members by suspected state security agents; police arrests and brutality; and violence meted out by Zanu PF thugs.

Now comes the real test: the 26 March by-elections, followed by the general polls next year. Can Chamisa turn his huge following – unemployed youths, workers in the informal sector, business leaders and civil servants – into votes, seeing as all these groups are suffering from the current economic malaise?

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