The project was initiated by Elton Mangoma one of the Movement for Democratic Change's ministers in the coalition government with ZANU-PF from 2009 to August 2013...
All three opposition alliances – as well as Tsvangirai's MDC Alliance there's one under former ZANU-PF Vice-President Joice Mujuru and another formed by ex-MDC activist Elton Mangoma – are talking up their chances of defeating the ruling party next August...
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The parties include that led by Morgan Tsvangirai former Prime Minister in the National Unity government the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai (MDC-T); Welshman Ncube's MDC faction; former Vice-President Joice Mujuru's Zimbabwe People First; Tendai Biti's People's Democratic Party; Simba Makoni's Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn; and Elton Mangoma's Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe (AC Vol 57 No 9 Morgan goes it alone)...
Elton Mangoma's own tiny splinter group held its Youth Congress last week with over 500 delegates while Mujuru is taking her time formalising the establishment of her People First party...
That faction's leading lights Tendai Biti and Elton Mangoma also fell out and decided to go their separate ways...
MDC-Tsvangirai recalled the MDC-Renewal Team supporters of Tendai Biti and Elton Mangoma only to confirm it would not fight bye-elections before electoral reforms had been implemented...
By the year's end MDC heavyweights Elias Mudzuri exiled Treasurer Roy Bennett and former ministers Elton Mangoma and Tendai Biti were suggesting that it was time to give a new leader a crack at the job...
Plagued by its own faction fighting which pits its leader Morgan Tsvangirai against ex-Energy Minister Elton Mangoma the MDC has made little capital out of the growing disarray in the ZANU-PF government...
The Energy Minister in Zimbabwe's previous government Elton Mangoma of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was deliberately sidelined in this arrangement as was Petrotrade...
There were hints that power from the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority would have followed suit but for the obstruction of the MDC-T Energy Minister Elton Mangoma...