Following his successful bid to oust those MPs Mwonzora wrote to the police demanding help to evict the party from its headquarters claiming that Hwende and armed party youths had barricaded themselves inside Morgan Tsvangirai House in downtown Harare...
When its founder Morgan Tsvangirai died in February 2018 he left three vice-presidents of the MDC-T: Khupe who had been elected by the party in the 2014 congress Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri...
This year the court ruled in her favour ordering Chamisa to repay to her the funds used by the MDC-A during the election campaign and to relinquish control of Morgan Tsvangirai House...
Some pundits believe that Mnangagwa may have encouraged the Supreme Court in its decision to rule as illegitimate Chamisa's appointment as head of the MDC-A after the death of Morgan 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...
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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...
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