Not to be outdone Morgan Tsvangirai and his official MDC have also been damaging their prospects with unseemly internal battles and unpopular personnel changes...
At countrywide rallies its leader Morgan Tsvangirai promotes himself as the saviour of the nation without being able to say why or how (AC Vol 55 No 6 Unsuccessful successions)...
In different ways President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) are currently demonstrating this truth...
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...
Vol 55 No 4 |
- ZIMBABWE
- CHINA
Its amorous leader Morgan Tsvangirai is not only embroiled in another romance but faces questions about the use of aid money...
The deals were kept from their partners in government the Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai and a breakaway MDC formation led by Welshman Ncube...
Her vote ballooned from 5 000 in 2008 to 17 000 while that of Morgan Tsvangirai's wing of the MDC rose from 6 000 to 11 000...
With Morgan Tsvangirai worrying about his exit package and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) no longer a parliamentary threat the ZANU-PF leadership can put the fast-fading nightmare of four years' power-sharing behind it and get on with the business of competing for the succession to President Robert Mugabe who turns 90 in February...
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...
