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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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...
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' Chamisa and his President Morgan Tsvangirai say they are ready to fight the national elections due next August...
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There are signs that veteran Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been offered a role in a transitional government along with Joice Mujuru who was sacked as Vice-President three years ago...
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As the securocrat who helped Mugabe to organise the Gukurahundi massacres when more than 20 000 were killed in Matabeleland in the 1980s and then the killing of opposition supporters after Morgan Tsvangirai won the first round of the presidential election in 2008 Mnangagwa has plenty of enemies (AC Vol 45 No 23 Gunning for Number 2)...
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai's cancer has taken a turn for the worse and he is now in a Johannesburg hospital as doubts grow about his ability to lead a campaign...
The human rights organisation Heal Zimbabwe says July saw a rise in attacks on property belonging to leaders of Morgan Tsvangirai's wing of the MDC including an arson attack on a bar owned by the party's Vice-President Elias Mudzuri and vehicles belonging to the opposition...
