After a three-week tour through Western capitals and having raised some US$150 million for his fragile government Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai now knows that diplomats and business people in the West are as ambivalent as their African counterparts about the prospects for Zimbabwe in the short term...
Vol 50 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
) Encouraged by his own trades union supporters Zuma will be more supportive of former unionists and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai...
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change is struggling to persuade loyalists of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front to stick to the Global Political Agreement (GPA) that the two parties signed in September...
The visit took a farcical turn with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai being locked out from the official banquet after rowing with State House guards over security; inside Mugabe raised discreet laughs as he postured in an honorary judo black belt from Pyongyang...
At stake is the authority of their leaders – Morgan Tsvangirai Arthur Mutambara and Robert Mugabe – and perhaps the leadership of the country...
Under the Global Political Agreement the JOC is to be replaced by a National Security Council chaired by President Robert Mugabe; Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is a member...
Vol 50 No 9 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Although Zuma is prepared to be more directly critical of President Robert Mugabe he and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel want Britain to offer more financing for the Mugabe-Morgan Tsvangirai coalition in Harare...
The activists fear that the three principals – Mugabe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara who leads his own MDC faction – may use their parliamentary strength to amend the draft constitution to fit their own political agendas...
This did not extend to allowing MDC leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to address the official rally despite the crowd's enthusiasm over his arrival...
Warm words emerged from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's ministerial retreat in Victoria Falls on 3-6 April and are encouraging foreign business to look at profitable turnarounds...