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Sekai Holland says Tsvangirai is the Godfather of violence-Outspoken Movement for Democratic Change legislator, Sekai Holland, who was a member of the party’s Guardian Council has joined the Renewal Team and has described party leader Morgan Tsvangirai as the “Godfather of intra-party violence”, according to New Zimbabwe.Com. “Violence as a means of control and oppression remains a central feature of the party with accusations never investigated properly that it emanates from the office of the president. It remains a sore point to many members and in particular those like me who are survivors of state torture. The Mandel meeting was constitutional and the decision to put the party under the curatorship of the Guardians Council is in line with our constitution,” she said. Holland said in a statement yesterday that Tsvangirai had turned the MDC into a personal property. “It is clear that the MDC-Tsvangirai has become the personal property of one individual. It is time to reject that and return to our founding principles. The MDC Renewal team is where those who still adhere to the original values and principles of the party are regrouping. I therefore on this note and occasion officially assume the role of interim party president as directed by the national council at Mandel,” she said. Holland said Tsvangirai was also an embarrassment to women. “Lucia Matibenga, a senior member of the party and respected women’s leader regionally and internationally, was dumped unconstitutionally. I was ejected from the party in 2003 but remained resolute in the hope that Tsvangirai would change his ways. I need not elaborate on Tsvangirai’s own personal behaviour and attitude towards women. Our silence on that score has been a huge embarrassment,” she said.

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There is a fable about the race between a tortoise and a hare. The hare was born a fast runner, but during the race, it had a rest from time to time, taking an afternoon tea or having a nap on the grass. The tortoise surpassed the hare and won the race in the end. Huawei is like a big tortoise.

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Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is also leader of the House, told Warren Park legislator Elias Mudzuri that people were not expected to go around naked asking for help just because they were poor.

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The government had secured a financier for the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare Road, the busiest road in the country, but the project was stalled after a local consortium Zim Highway Consortium took the State Procurement Board and the Ministry of Transport to court, the Deputy Minister of Transport Petronella Kagonye told the Senate this week.

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Over 90 percent of borrowings from micro-finance institutions (MFIs) are for consumptive spending, leaving the majority of Zimbabweans highly indebted, a scholar said today.

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Provincial elections for the Movement for Democratic Change begin in Harare tomorrow as the party prepares for its congress next month, the party said in a statement following a meeting of its national council today.

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