To compound the confusion Morgan Tsvangirai who heads the Movement for Democratic Change had nominated Abdenico Bhebe a member of the rival opposition MDC faction led by Arthur Mutambara...
They boycotted the ceremony where he was sworn in alongside his two deputies Arthur Mutambara (leader of the rival MDC-M) and Thokozani Khupe...
The other opposition leader Arthur Mutambara is the luckiest politician in Zimbabwe...
Tsvangirai had wanted Abdenico Bhebe to head the Ministry of Water Affairs but dropped him because he belongs to Arthur Mutambara's MDC group; Bhebe had rallied parliamentarians from his party to back Tsvangirai's MDC National Chairman Lovemore Moyo as Speaker resulting in the loss of their own candidate Paul Themba Nyathi...
Arthur Mutambara's MDC faction has Welshman Ncube (Co-chair) Frank Chamunorwa Edward Mkhosi and Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga...
Under the terms of the 'Global Political Agreement' the power-sharing government will be made up as follows: the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front will have 16 ministers the Movement for Democratic Change-Morgan Tsvangirai faction twelve and MDC-Arthur Mutambara three...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 8 |
- ZIMBABWE
- CHINA
Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara told a government conference in Harare on 4 June that the power-sharing government welcomed investment from all sources: 'Look west look east look north look south and look at yourself...
Of the agreed 25 senior ministerial posts President Robert Mugabe is entitled to appoint 15 ministers Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai 13 and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara three...
Now Mugabe remains President with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai as Prime Minister and his former colleague Arthur Mutambara as his Deputy...
Arthur Mutambara went on a bit longer without notes and occasionally referred to both President Robert Mugabe and President Tsvangirai (everyone else called him the Prime Minister designate)...
The two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change MDC-T under Morgan Tsvangirai and MDC-M under Arthur Mutambara conceded that President Robert Mugabe's position was not up for debate...
In the House of Assembly the Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara factions of the MDC together have a majority of eleven plus the independent former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo...
