HARARE – Self-imposed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary general and senator Sengezo Tshabangu has been expelled for indiscipline by the Welshman Ncube led opposition and now faces an embarrassing recall from the Senate.

Tshabangu was dragged before the party’s national disciplinary committee on February 12 this year facing four counts of misconduct which relate to his misdeeds between November and December last year.

The charges against the hawkish politician stemmed from his unilateral decision to make changes of “CCC Parliamentary Portfolio holders without the authority of the President or any organ of the party”, according to a statement by party spokesperson Willias Madzimure Wednesday.

Tshabangu was also charged for making derogatory remarks against Ncube through public media after he had earlier been suspended from the party.

His conduct was in contravention of Clause 9.1.2.3, of the Citizens Coalition for Change Constitution Rules and Regulations, Madzimure said.

The party spokesperson further said Tshabangu, through his conduct, brought “the name and reputation of the CCC into disrepute” and was a “brazen” defiance of Ncube’s authority, the National Standing Committee, the National Executive Committee and National Council.

Tshabangu, represented during the hearing by party legislator and lawyer, Kucaca Phulu, was found guilty of all four offences as charged, something that elicited his immediate expulsion from the opposition.

“Having found Sengezo Tshabangu guilty of all the charges, and having regard to the gravity of the acts of misconduct of which the Committee convicted him, the Committee decided to sentence him to expulsion from the party with immediate effect,” Madzimure said.

It was not immediately clear how Tshabangu intended to respond to his sacking.

But what remains apparent is his pending ignominious fall from grace after he single-handedly ordered multiple recalls on elected CCC MPs and Councillors from different provinces of the country claiming they had “ceased to be CCC members”.

The politician, hardly known to the masses before his bombshell expulsion of opposition colleagues in 2023, now faces the same fate which he subjected his rivals to, a recall.

Tshabangu remains a hated figure within Zimbabwean opposition and broader civil society for initiating the opposition leadership carnage soon after elections in 2023.

The recalls, challenged few times in court by the party, are also blamed for former party leader Nelson Chamisa’s unceremonious resignation last year.

Chamisa claimed he could nolonger afford to remain comfortable among traitors.

His exit saw CCC split into two bitter factions with one led by Ncube and another, which remains loyal to him, being led by veteran politician Jameson Timba.

During his menace, Tshabangu was branded a party imposter and a hired Zanu PF hatchet man by the opposition.