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🟢The disintegration of the main opposition CCC under Nelson Chamisa due to leadership, organisational and structural failures, as well as through infiltration by Zanu PF, state security agents and sabotage amid defections has given the ruling party free rein on the political landscape and in the constitutional amendment battle...

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