The parties are already girding their loins for electoral battle: the dominant Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) is hopefully elevating its 6-10 December conference to a ‘congress’ so as to deal with knotty issues while Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has hit the ground running with waves of grassroots enthusiasm animating early rallies of his wing of the Movement for Democratic Change...
Moyo’s initial plan to use the cables to berate the Movement for Democratic Change and its leader Morgan Tsvangirai unravelled because of what they had to say about divisions in ZANU-PF...
ZANU-PF spin doctor Jonathan Moyo’s strategy was to make great play of the cables so as to highlight the negative assessment of Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai by his party colleagues and US diplomats alike...
’ At a rally in Mutare Finance Minister Tendai Biti Secretary General of Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC faction accused ZANU of killing Mujuru: ‘ZANU-PF has invested very much in violence and arson is now their new weapon against perceived political opponents...
One of the more strategic thinkers in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s faction of the MDC Biti stopped hyperinflation in 2009 and restarted a formal trading economy by replacing the valueless Zimbabwe dollar with the United States dollar and South African rand...
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- SOUTH AFRICA
Mugabe’s spin-doctor Jonathan Moyo claims Zuma is biased towards the Movement for Democratic Change under Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai which is in shaky partnership with Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front...
’ Gumbo has also warned the outspoken Third Brigade Commander Brigadier General Douglas Nyikayaramba that he doesn’t speak for ZANU-PF either: earlier this month Nyikayaramba said that MDC leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was a ‘national security threat’ and would never be accepted as president...
Although President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai were billed to preside over the launch that honour was left to Planning Minister Tapiwa Mashakada (AC Vol 41 No 19 Changing floors)...
Premier Morgan Tsvangirai’s faction MDC-T has similar problems...
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai told Africa Confidential that his party supports more local ownership of companies and resources as long as the process is fully accountable...
