Posts by Charles Rukuni

That is the question one is bound to ask after reading a situation report by the United States embassy in Harare on the status of food relief in Zimbabwe.

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Welshman Ncube was the second most powerful person within the Movement for Democratic Change when the party was formed in 1999. His political star, however, began to fade when he led a splinter group in 2005 that insisted that the party should contest the senate elections. A constitutional expert, Ncube may have been right in principle, but the move backfired. Though he allowed Arthur Mutambara to lead the party until he took over, the MDC that Ncube now leads only commands 10 seats in Parliament. It could even lose those seats to either his main rival Morgan Tsvangirai or the resuscitated Zimbabwe African People’s Union led by Dumiso Dabengwa. There are 207 Wikileaks cables on him. Here they are.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said the only logical explanation for the government’s Operation Murambatsvina was to provoke a response which it could then crush because the operation did not make sense either politically or economically.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader said Operation Restore Order, also known as Murambatsvina, was retribution against urban populations for voting against the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.

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The Movement for Democratic Change, whose Shadow Minister for Justice David Coltart had said would win only 25 seats, managed to register candidates in all 120 parliamentary constituencies in 2005.

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A British government minister yesterday refused to comment on the investments of Old Mutual and other British companies in Zimbabwe saying this was due to the need to respect commercial confidence.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray says Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change lacks strategic vision because its secretary general Tendai Biti has more than a full-time job as Minister of Finance and has insufficient time to devote to his party job.

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Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge was one of the senior Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front politicians to have allegedly been asked to surrender his farm in a purge that was reportedly aimed at those who had been against the elevation of Joice Mujuru as the 2004 party congress.

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The pace of land reform slowed down after the 2005 elections as the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front became less hostile to white farmers and went for dissidents from the party.

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Talk about elections has been going on since the indecisive 2008 elections. The transitional period was supposed to be 18 months, but three years have gone by now. The next elections by law should be held next year.

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