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The United States embassy in Harare said way back in August 2009 that Zimbabwe was not likely to hold any elections within the period set under the Global Political Agreement because none of the political parties in the GPA was eager to hold elections.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said his party was planning a mass stay-away which would only end when President Robert Mugabe had been forced out of office because he had pushed the people to the limit.

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The secretary-general of the Mutambara faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Welshman Ncube issued an ultimatum to Speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo to ban three Members of Parliament who had been expelled from the party for indiscipline or he would face corruption charges.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai told an officer of the British High Commission that Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front member Simba Makoni was a coward when he accepted the post of Minister of Finance.

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War veterans leader Joseph Chinotimba failed to disrupt an all-stakeholders meeting to map the way forward for the country when police were called in to control the disturbance caused by ZANU-PF youths.

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The United States embassy claimed that Isidore Zindoga, who replaced Morgan Tsvangirai as secretary general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions when Tsvangirai left to lead the Movement for Democratic Change, was a Central Intelligence Organisation agent.

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Speaker of Parliament said the constitution making process would cost US$19 million but the ministries that were responsible- Finance and Constitutional Affairs- were revisiting the figure.

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The Movement for Democratic Change was reported to have won 60 percent of the constituencies in the 2000 elections, according to the rumour mill which was spurred by the party’s victories in Matabeleland.

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For more than a decade it has almost been impossible to get a positive story about Zimbabwe published in the Western media, especially if it was written by a black Zimbabwean and appeared to be favouring the country’s president Robert Mugabe.

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The United States embassy in Harare expected the Movement for Democratic Change to win at least 30 seats in the June 2000 elections despite the fact that it had defeated the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front in the constitutional referendum in February of the same year.

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