The Mutambara faction of the Movement for Democratic Change was nothing more than a splinter group with limited support but its 5 to 10 percent of the total votes would be critical in the presidential elections.
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Former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell said Movement for Democratic Change leader Arthur Mutambara was smart as a whip but in many respects he was a light weight who spent too much time reading US campaign messaging manuals and too little thinking about real issues.
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The United States embassy in Harare said it was planning not only to attend the funeral service of a slain Movement for Democratic Change activist Gift Tandare but it was also going to monitor government actions elsewhere in Harare.
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Movement for Democratic Change pro-senate leader Arthur Mutambara was arrested as he attempted to leave the country to visit his family in Johannesburg.
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Retired general Solomon Mujuru, who was touted as a kingmaker, preferred Dumiso Dabengwa to challenge President Robert Mugabe over Simba Makoni according to former journalist Sydney Masamvu.
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The executive mayor of Bulawayo Japhet Ndabeni Ncube told United States ambassador James McGhee that political change in Zimbabwe was imperative but a possible solution was an anti-Mugabe coalition of Simba Makoni, Solomon Mujuru, Dumiso Dabengwa and Morgan Tsvangirai.
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First Lady Grace Mugabe is not active in politics. She is not well liked in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. She has no close relationship with any cabinet ministers. She has very few friends even within the Mugabe family.
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Outspoken Catholic Archbishop for Bulawayo Pius Ncube said that the Movement for Democratic Change was ineffective but it appeared he preferred Arthur Mutambara to his rival Morgan Tsvangirai.
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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 114 cables on him. Here they are:
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Retired army general Solomon Mujuru was taking advantage of the leadership vacuum in Masvingo left by the death of Eddison Zvobgo Snr by fielding military officers, both active and retired, who were loyal to him, according to United States ambassador Christopher Dell.
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