Ben-Menashe appeared as a prosecution witness against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in his politically motivated trial for treason in Harare in 2004...
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai is expected to revive his presidential challenge possibly in conjunction with former Vice-President Joice Mujuru who was sacked at the party's 2014 conference for allegedly plotting to topple Mugabe...
Former Vice-President Joice Mujuru has started her own opposition grouping and speaks of constructive cooperation with Morgan Tsvangirai the veteran oppositionist...
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The parties include that led by Morgan Tsvangirai former Prime Minister in the National Unity government the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai (MDC-T); Welshman Ncube's MDC faction; former Vice-President Joice Mujuru's Zimbabwe People First; Tendai Biti's People's Democratic Party; Simba Makoni's Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn; and Elton Mangoma's Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe (AC Vol 57 No 9 Morgan goes it alone)...
Leading the charge is Tendai Biti former Finance Minister and now leader of the People's Democratic Party a breakaway from Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change...
Former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said civil servants would be paid in bond notes if they allowed government to introduce the currency (AC Vol 57 No 9 Morgan goes it alone)...
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That's the verdict of opposition insiders assessing the aftermath of the massive demonstration in Harare on 14 April organised by Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai (MDC-T)...
OPPOSITION FEARS Morgan Tsvangirai who left the Government of National Unity after ZANU-PF's landslide victory in the 2013 polls is said to be jittery about Mujuru fearing she could supplant him as leader of the opposition...
This issue was first raised by military officers then led by Lieutenant General Vitalis Zvinavashe who insisted that Morgan Tsvangirai leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change could not be President because 'the highest office in the land is a straitjacket whose occupant is expected to observe the objectives of the liberation struggle'...
That worry proved unfounded however as the main body of the Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC faction MDC-T had helpfully from ZANU-PF's point of view recalled the 14 MPs of the breakaway MDC-Renewal Team (AC Vol 56 No 9 So far so bad)...
Although officially recruitment was frozen during the Government of National Unity that included Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change numbers more than doubled just after ZANU-PF won the August 2013 elections and the GNU ended rising from 250 000 to 553 000 civil servants...
