Mugabe has also resisted the temptation to untangle the costly governmental deadlock and give MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai a face-saving way out...
Former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's triumphalist eve-of-poll rally had convinced the capital that a change of regime was at hand so it was unprepared for President Robert Mugabe's win with 61% of the national vote with the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) taking three quarters of the 210 parliamentary seats...
The stage is set for days perhaps weeks of confrontation following claims by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and local monitoring groups of extensive rigging in the 31 July elections...
However within hours of the close of voting on 31 July Morgan Tsvangirai announced that there had been ‘monumental fraud' in the elections...
Careful not to offend sensibilities about age 61-year-old Morgan Tsvangirai has taken a more nuanced line...
That may not be enough to help Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's faction of the MDC which we hear is struggling to raise election campaign funds even at this late stage...
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) initially saw the Southern African Development Community summit in Maputo on 15 June as a victory...
In spite of all the chaos Premier Morgan Tsvangirai’s wing of the Movement for Democratic Change seems better prepared than many had feared...
This however owes more to the partisan zeal of his henchmen than to Morgan Tsvangirai’s wing of the Movement for Democratic Change...
President Robert Mugabe is insisting on general elections by 29 June when the present Parliament ends despite the objections of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai...
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change-T went lame in the final lap but is content with the second prize: hefty golden parachutes on leaving office...