Welfare departments are for parties that are properly organised and run. Such parties can mobilise budgets to take care of their own in hard times. Parties or “movements” that belong in one man’s briefcase are hardly responsive to the needs of cadres and have no capacity to sustain a welfare programme beyond photo ops and intermittent assistance in random cases By losing its institutional existence under Nelson Chamisa’s leadership, the opposition lost its capacity to do the obvious things that it’s been able to do as a membership organisation for the past quarter of a century. Having a popular, charismatic leader but with no party is like having a fiery evangelist but no church: nhasi mapindira mutende, mangwana pasi pemuti, and so on. You cannot sustain any ongoing functions and programmes. The whole affair is a dog’s breakfast! Kurongeka ndihwo hutungamiri.