Posts by Charles Rukuni

Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai threatened to pull out of the 20008 elections if something was not done about violence.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said his party was under no illusion about the nature of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, but it was going to work with the party until it became clear that ZANU-PF was not complying with the expected agreement.

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A two-day stay-away called by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions in September 2007 flopped because of massive unemployment, fear of job loss, government intimidation and arrests of activists.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai planned to form a political party with central bank governor Gideon Gono six months before the 2008 elections, former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo told United States embassy officials.

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Zimbabwean publisher Trevor Ncube was thoroughly disgusted with the Movement for Democratic Change that he had nightmares about the MDC taking over Zimbabwe.

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President Robert Mugabe’s personal priest Father Fidelis Mukonori told United States embassy officials in 2007 that he believed that it was now time for Mugabe to go but an exit would have been easier 10 or 15 years earlier.

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Although President Robert Mugabe repeatedly said the price blitz of 2007 was a reaction to a “political agenda” pursued by “greedy companies” doing the bidding of Western governments seeking to bring about regime change through “illegal sanctions”, the blitz was actually recommended by the Joint Operations Command.

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The Movement for Democratic Change was going to look for a new leader if its leader Morgan Tsvangirai lost the 2008 elections regardless of its character or legitimacy.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai did not make a good first impression when he held his first briefing for diplomats in Pretoria on 5 June 2007.

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Talks between the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change broke down after the Morgan Tsvangirai faction insisted that the party should have two vice-presidents instead of one as previously agreed.

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