Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai refused to sign a Memorandum of Agreement that had been reached by his party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and South African mediators establishing a framework for negotiations between the two MDC factions and ZANU-PF unless an African Union mediator was present with South African President Thabo Mbeki in the negotiations.
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In what appeared to be a deliberate and concerted effort to paralyse the Movement for Democratic Change soon after its election victory in March 2008, 10 Members of Parliament and two senators were jailed and formally charged.
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The Prime Minister and Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai has fought for democracy in Zimbabwe since he became secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions in the 1980s. It was in that role that he was catapulted to the MDC. He has the highest number of Wikileaks cables released on Zimbabwe, more than 800. But whether it was for better or worse, only the public can decide. Here are the first 504. We have 300 more to go and will publish them all before we move on to complete those on President Robert Mugabe who has the second highest.
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More than 500 Women of Zimbabwe Arise supporters on 19 April 2007 held simultaneous demonstrations at several government offices in Bulawayo to protest against power cuts.
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Police in Harare and Bulawayo on 13 February 2007 arrested more than 250 participants in peaceful demonstrations staged by Women of Zimbabwe Arise to protest against the country’s worsening political and economic crisis.
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Women of Zimbabwe Arise leader Jenni Williams told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell that Zimbabweans, especially those in the rural areas, were at the breaking point.
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Police arrested about 250 women in Harare and 180 in Bulawayo, including the leader of Women of Zimbabwe Arise Jenni Williams, during a Valentine Day’s march in which they were demanding affordable food and social justice.
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The government seized the passports of publisher Trevor Ncube and deposed Movement for Democratic Change spokesman Paul Themba Nyathi but did not touch those of any of the civic leaders including Jenni Williams.
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The director of Women of Zimbabwe Arise Jenni Williams joked with United States embassy officials, just after the publication of the Constitutional Reform Bill, that she needed to do all her travelling then because her passport might be confiscated.
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Jenni Williams has made more headlines in and outside Zimbabwe than any other woman in Zimbabwe. This has mostly been about her being arrested during one demonstration or another. The British newspaper, The Guardian, described her in 2009 as “one of the most troublesome thorns in Mugabe’s side”. Williams is now more known for her role as the director of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA). There is very little talk about her role as the spokesperson for the Commercial Farmers Union or its more radical offspring Justice for Agriculture. Even the United States embassy seems to have started focussing on her when she formed WOZA rather than when she was representing the CFU or JAG. Here are cables about her published so far.
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