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The Movement for Democratic Change’s secretary for Economic Affairs Eddie Cross said the government’s manipulation of food deliveries should be referred to the United Nations Security Council as this was a major human rights issue.

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Movement for Democratic Change legislators, Eddie Cross and Trudy Stevenson, who is now an ambassador, were among the radicals within the MDC that piled pressure on party leader Morgan Tsvangirai to get President Robert Mugabe impeached, according to former secretary general Welshman Ncube.

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The Movement for Democratic Change began its impeachment proceedings against President Robert Mugabe on 25 October 2000 but Mugabe immediately hit back saying the reconciliation policy with whites was in jeopardy and could be revoked.

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War veterans had become a law unto themselves leading the United States embassy in Harare to ask just how much control, if any, President Robert Mugabe had over them.

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Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett told United States embassy officials in Pretoria that although the party had organised a protest march to the Zimbabwe consulate in Johannesburg which attracted about 300 people, he was frustrated by the poor organisation and ethnic divisions.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said party treasurer Roy Bennett’s presence in South Africa, where he had applied for asylum, was a powerful potential asset for the party with the diaspora in its fund-raising efforts.

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The secretary-general of the main faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, Tendai Biti, said party treasurer Roy Bennett was culturally Zimbabwean while his colleague David Coltart, who did not speak a word of the local language, would always be an outsider.

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Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett’s application for asylum in South Africa was rejected by the Department of Home Affairs but his lawyer Arnold Tsunga said he was appealing.

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The Movement for Democratic Change called for the annulment of the results of the 2002 presidential elections through a 135-page legal challenge claiming that President Robert Mugabe had stolen the election.

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