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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan described President Robert Mugabe as the ultimate hardliner as dialogue which had opened between the Movement for Democratic Change and his Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front not only depended on his party but on him personally.

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In 1999, Zimbabwe’s now main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), took to the political scene with widespread domestic and international fanfare.

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Signs of a split within the Movement for Democratic Change must have been evident more than two years before it happened and the split might have been engineered by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.

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National Constitutional Assembly leader Lovemore Madhuku introduced a one-man-one-vote process at the first congress of the Morgan Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change to address vote-buying allegations at the provincial level.

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Most people would argue otherwise, but that is the truth. In fact, you can buy two houses for the price of building one.

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President Robert Mugabe went on the offensive after the week-long anti-government demonstration that had been called for by the Movement for Democratic Change to force him to step down declaring: “I am ready for a fight, I am getting younger…, and I still can punch.”

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National Constitutional Assembly chairman Lovemore Madhuku told United States embassy officials that Emmerson Mnangagwa had decided not to oppose Joice Mujuru as President Robert Mugabe’s successor but was simply playing for time.

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Movement for Democratic Change leaders Welshman Ncube and Gibson Sibanda told a United States embassy official that their party was not like Joshua Nkomo’s Zimbabwe African People’s Union.

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National Constitutional Assembly leader Lovemore Madhuku was reported to be close to the former leader of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Arthur Mutambara and was reportedly the best man at his wedding.

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The United States embassy said although the week-long stay away that had been called by the Movement for Democratic Change was successful in closing down most business in Harare and other cities it was a PR failure.

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