AS the talk of elections gains momentum, the mainstream political parties (ZANU-PF and MDC-T) face a lot of in-house challenges likely to affect their performance should the polls eventually materialise.
There is what I have termed the "fallacy of stability" - which is a syndrome that normally grips political parties. They assume stability, which is either not there or is somehow fissured.
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