The failure to elevate Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa is reported to have angered the people of Manicaland because they felt that they had been disadvantaged by President Robert Mugabe’s adherence to the Unity accord of 1987.
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Former army commander Solomon Mujuru is reported to have struck a deal with Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Welshman Ncube after MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai had spurned the same offer.
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The rift between Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai and secretary-general Welshman Ncube widened as the pro-senate faction fielded 26 candidates to contest the reintroduced senate seats.
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Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa who had thrown his support behind Oppah Muchinguri lost again when Joice Mujuru and John Nkomo won the slots for vice- presidency of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.
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Former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell said Morgan Tsvangirai was the heart and soul of the Movement for Democratic Change and party secretary-general Welshman Ncube knew this.
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A former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front legislator Pearson Mbalekwa said South African President Thabo Mbeki might have tried to foster an alliance between Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Welshman Ncube and ZANU-PF politburo member Dumiso Dabengwa.
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Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa told a white farmer who had come to him for help to stop the invasion of his farm, Inogo Ranch, that he could not intervene because the farmer, Hermanus Grove, had taken the government to court.
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Movement for Democratic Change secretary Welshman Ncube, secretary for foreign affairs Priscilla Misihairabwi- Mushonga, youth chairman Nelson Chamisa, Job Sikhala and secretary for economic affairs Tendai Biti, asked a visiting congressional delegation that had come to inspect the effects of the government crackdown on illegal settlements for “continued” US support saying Operation restore Order had weakened the government.
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President Robert Mugabe, who had been rumoured to be ill or dead, officially opened Parliament on 9 June lambasting the United States for its “shameless refusal” to join international consensus in accepting the results of the March elections in which his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front had won a two-thirds majority.
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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell that his contacts within the Central Intelligence Organisation had told him that the MDC had won over 90 seats in the 31 March 2005 parliamentary elections.
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