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The Movement for Democratic Change was roiled by internal squabbles in its Women’s Assembly, four months before the crucial 2008 elections, leading to accusations that party leader Morgan Tsvangirai was dictatorial.

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Ever wondered why some people will tell you that they have not been paid for a month, two, three, four, five or six months, but still continue to go to work? They are probably getting something out of it.

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The Movement for Democratic Change was rocked by divisions after the leadership decided to dissolve its Women’s Assembly because it was ineffective and had been infiltrated by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.

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Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett said party leader Morgan Tsvangirai had made the right decision by replacing Lucia Matibenga as head of the Women’s assembly because Matibenga was on the ZANU-PF payroll.

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Labour leader Lucia Matibenga planned to join a delegation to the United States led by Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai but she did not have a passport.

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Lucia Matibenga, leader of the Women’s League of the Morgan Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, was one of the senior party officials opposed to the re-unification of the two factions to form a united front against the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.

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The Commercial Workers Union, the largest affiliate of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, was paralysed following an internal coup which saw union president Lucia Matibenga being ousted and replaced by a new leadership.

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President Robert Mugabe had maintained his control of ZANU-PF through patronage and fear but three people- his former secretary general Edgar Tekere, former army commander Solomon Mujuru and publisher Ibbo Mandaza- had openly stood up to him, but failed.

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South Africa’s first black President Nelson Mandela did not deserve to have a successor like Thabo Mbeki, a Brazilian newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo said in2008 soon after Mbeki was pushed out of government.

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President Robert Mugabe retained significant power in the inclusive government under the Global Political Agreement signed on 15 September 2008 despite the prolonged negotiations under which Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai insisted that he wanted to be head of government with executive powers.

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