Coltart said MDC was ready to go all the way

Movement for Democratic Change Shadow Minister of Justice David Coltart said he had spent two years raising funds for the party’s challenge of the 2002 presidential elections and its challenge of the 2000 parliamentary elections and the money was in place for a lengthy court battle.

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Mutambara – 100 Wikileaks cables 50 to go

Arthur Mutambara was a firebrand student leader at the University of Zimbabwe. He went on to the United Kingdom to do his PhD and worked for various United States firms and organisations before coming to South Africa where he started his own company. It was while in South Africa that he was approached to lead the pro-senate faction of the Movement for Democratic Change as it was known at the time. Mutambara, it has transpired, was not the first, second, or even third choice. After a dismal performance in the 2008 elections Mutambara became deputy Prime Minister virtually because he was one of the principals to the Global Political Agreement. But he was soon kicked out of the leadership of the party. There are more than 150 cables on him. Here are the first 100.

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MDC bomber confesses

An MDC activist Sedweak Munyaradzi Mupazviripo Munya confessed to United States embassy officials that he had made and thrown nine petrol bombs at three different ZANU-PF meetings in progress.

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Coltart asks party to boycott elections

Movement for Democratic Change Shadow Minister for Justice David Coltart said the party would impose conditions on inter-party talks and boycott flawed elections after the government had announced more than a year in advance that the 2005 parliamentary elections would be held March.

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How ZANU-PF rigs elections

The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front inflated the number of voters in Mutare, Gwanda, Makonde and Gweru prior to the local government elections of 2003, according to an audit by the Movement for Democratic Change.

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