The 59-year-old founding leader and now Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has been altogether too energetic but not in cabinet or on the hustings...
Amidst a confetti shower of court orders affidavits and writs the nuptials between Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Elizabeth Macheka on 16 September were down-sized from a full-blown civil ceremony to the celebration of an existing ‘customary union’ (legally recognised traditional marriage)...
The Minister of Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs Jessie Majome of Premier Morgan Tsvangirai’s wing of the MDC was not told of this development which would delay an independent electoral commission from taking over the supervision of elections and referenda and maintain the role of the partisan Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede...
Vol 53 No 17 |
- ZIMBABWE
- SADC
In the absence of SADC’s mediator between Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai the summit fell back on anodyne resolutions...
Douglas Mwonzora of Premier Morgan Tsvangirai's wing of the MDC (MDC-T) Co-Chairman of the Constitution Parliamentary Select Committee (Copac) the body charged with drawing it up expects the next stage a stakeholders' conference to be held by the end of August with a referendum in late October...
ZANU-PF's murderous repression left deep scars and the MDC-T's clumsy tactics contributed to the party split when Welshman Ncube's faction left with almost a third of the parliamentary seats in 2008 depriving Morgan Tsvangirai of a first-round win...
ZANU-PF’s bigger problem ahead of the summit was how to deal with the lobbying of SADC leaders by Zimbabwean Premier Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC faction...
Similar problems in 2008 cost the party all but six of the province’s 26 parliamentary seats in a major breakthrough for Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC-T...
Unfortunately ZANU-PF’s youth wing seated next to the VIP stand kept up a chorus denigrating Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)...
The Movement for Democratic Change objects that this will probably be the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front slogan whenever elections are held (President Robert Mugabe wants them this year while Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai wants them in March 2013)...