Bulawayo legislator David Coltart said he had been shaken by Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s reaction to the National Council’s decision to participle in the senate elections and had lost faith in Tsvangirai as a leader.
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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front surprised everyone in the 2005 parliamentary elections including itself when it won 78 of the 120 contested seats garnering a two-thirds majority which enabled it to change even the country’s constitution.
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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai was so convinced that his party would win the 2005 parliamentary elections that he told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell that he would be holding a press conference on 1 April to claim a democratic mandate.
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The government published Constitutional Amendment Bill number 17 on 15 July 2005 to among other things transfer title of the state land acquired during land reform and eliminate judicial challenges to land acquisitions.
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Bulawayo legislator David Coltart told United States embassy officials that he had heard a rumour that former army commander Solomon Mujuru was behind Operation Restore Order as a way of exerting Zezuru power within the party.
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The Foreign Policy magazine failed States Index which ranked Zimbabwe as number five among failed states has itself been condemned as a failed index by a blog Africa is a Country.
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Zimbabwe was not eligible under the African Growth and Opportunity Act which offered preferential trade to African exports to the United States because of its interventionism and lack of fundamental freedoms.
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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 more than 200 Wikileaks cables on him. Here are the first 101.
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The United States government, through its international aid agency, poured US$250 000 to South African groups led by the South African Council of Churches and the Institute of Democracy in South Africa to monitor the 2005 parliamentary elections.
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Want to talk to President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Head of Government and State? Call 2634707091-9. This is his office number. To reach his residence, call office number and ask to be connected to Zim-one Main House. President Robert Mugabe speaks fluent English.
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