Morgan Richard Tsvangirai

New confidenceChamisa's personal position is stronger following his elevation to the presidency of the MDC at the party's first elective congress since the death of its founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai in February 2018 (AC Vol 60 No 11 Readying for protest)...

Once described by The Jerusalem Post as 'a notorious chronic liar' Ben-Menashe worked closely with the deeply corrupt late president of Zambia Frederick Chiluba before finding fame as a prosecution witness in a trumped-up treason trial of the late Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai...

The MDC had a turbulent 2018: the death of founder Morgan Tsvangirai a bitter leadership contest a rushed and poorly-funded election campaign all under a sustained barrage from ZANU-PF backed by the state (AC Vol 59 No 4 After Tsvangirai)...

According to one witness in Mutare during the funeral of MDC founder Morgan Tsvangirai in February supporters of the MDC's Nelson Chamisa threatened to burn a hut with Thokozani Khupe Vice-President of the splinter MCD-Tsvangirai in it...

In the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) the direction of its late leader Morgan Tsvangirai was central in everyone's calculations...

A former Israeli intelligence operative and arms dealer Ben-Menashe gained notoriety as Robert Mugabe's lobbyist and for having given prosecution evidence against the late Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai at his trial on trumped up charges of treason in 2004...

That split the traditional ZANU-PF vote and allowed the MDC's Morgan Tsvangirai to come out on top in the first round of the presidential elections even though the opposition faced far more restrictive conditions than today...

After Morgan Tsvangirai's death in February both Chamisa and Khupe claimed that they should inherit the leadership (AC Vol 59 No 4 After Tsvangirai)...

The death of the MDC's founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai on 14 February shifted the dial again...

The death of veteran opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai announced on 14 February has prompted a massive show of grief and support for one of the doughtiest campaigners against the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front...

Farewell to the 'people's general' Opposition activists loved to refer to Morgan Tsvangirai as the 'People's General' as a way of countering the military's gibes about his lack of liberation war credentials...

It is unlikely that Morgan Tsvangirai who has been seriously ill will have the strength to shepherd the party into a new leadership so leaving the factions to fight it out among themselves...