The battle of Professors rages on over the control of a hopeless political faction.
After staging what apparently looked like a model democratic takeover of the leadership of the elitist and tribalist political formation that owes its place in Zimbabwe’s political landscape to Mugabe and Zanu PF’s violent electoral coup after the humiliating defeat of Mugabe by Tsvangirai in March 2008 that opened the door for then South Africa President Thabo Mbeki to implement the SADC recovery plan for Mugabe garnisheed by the resuscitation of the MDC-M formation in disarray Professor Ncube –the defacto leader of the renegades now finds himself against the wall after his apprentice turned formation front man Professor Arthur Mutambara has grown a thick skin and defied his mentor.
On 7-8 January 2011 Professor Ncube asserted himself as the manifest and defacto leader of the renegade faction that he wanted to move out of the looming shadow of its MDC origins.
