We hear that Zuma’s office has just sent a stern note to the three principals of 2008’s Global Political Agreement (GPA) – Robert Mugabe Arthur Mutambara and Morgan Tsvangirai – firmly setting out the limits of South Africa’s mediating role if the parties do not keep to their undertakings...
Three weeks ago Mugabe made a surprise appearance on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Tanzania praising the spirit of cooperation with his MDC co-panelists the leaders of the two MDC factions Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara and holding their hands aloft in a gesture of national unity...
Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara’s faction MDC-M has most to fear...
President Robert Mugabe of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara of his own MDC faction told a joint press conference on 23 December that they still had ‘minor differences’ but that the power-sharing government was not going to collapse...
Arthur Mutambara’s most important ally is still Welshman Ncube MDC-M Secretary General and Industry Minister; Mutambara’s deputy Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga remains important as does David Coltart who runs the biggest ministry – Education Sports and Culture...
Chaos in Arthur Mutambara's MDC faction has not helped...
After last March's elections Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC faction won 100 seats and Arthur Mutambara's MDC faction won ten seats giving the two MDC factions a comfortable majority over President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front which won 100 seats...
Several African bankers who attended the Zimbabwe roadshows in Cape Town on 10-12 June told Africa Confidential they would open negotiations having been convinced to sign up by Finance Minister Tendai Biti Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara and Harare's omnipresent financial baron Nigel Chanakira...
At stake is the authority of their leaders – Morgan Tsvangirai Arthur Mutambara and Robert Mugabe – and perhaps the leadership of the country...
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...
Flanked by President Robert Mugabe and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara his former rivals who are now colleagues in government Tsvangirai called for unity of purpose and reaffirmed the 'global political agreement' of last September...
