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The first team to lead the MDC

The former president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions Gibson Sibanda was the first leader of the Movement for Democratic Change with current leader Morgan Tsvangirai taking on the…
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Zimbabwe tense

Zimbabwe was tense today following internet campaigns that Zimbabweans should hold Egypt-style protests to end President Robert Mugabe's 31-year-old rule. The campaigns were a total flop as there were no…
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Leadership has nothing to do with education- Tsvangirai

“I don’t know whether you can put education into politics because if that were the yardstick, then we (Zimbabwe) would be the best led country in the world, with the best run economy, the best run government, and the most respectable government because Mugabe has seven degrees, so it is not a basis,”  Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said 12 years ago just before the formation of the Movement for Democratic Change when it became apparent that he would become leader of the country’s biggest opposition party.

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Mugabe visits Marange

President Robert Mugabe today visited the Marange diamonds fields for the first time and declared that the diamonds from the area were the punch that would knockout the illegal sanctions…
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How the MDC was formed

The seeds for the formation of the Movement for Democratic Change were sown at a working people’s convention that was held from 26-28 February 1999. The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade…
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MDC invites Odinga

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change is to invite Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga as the guest of honour at its third national congress slated for May in…
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Zimbabwe dragged into attempted Swazi arms deal – Wikileaks

Zimbabwe makes interesting reading. The country has been dragged into an attempted US$60 million arms purchase by Swaziland. The only reason is that Swaziland did not allegedly need the array of weapons requested. Another ventured elsewhere is that the country was trying to make up for weapons from China that it had been stopped from getting. But even in the diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks, Zimbabwe was just mentioned in passing.

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