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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai celebrates his 59th birthday this week. He has his faults but his worst enemy has been the media- both local and international. As far as Tsvangirai…

“The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”

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The MDC is 12 years old now but rarely is the public ever told about the party’s policies. News about the MDC is dominated by arrests and detention of party…

Jocelyn Chiwenga has sent a lot of people scouring for cover. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, photographer Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi and Lawyer Gugulethu Moyo. She even bayed for blood when wanted to take over a farm from one white farmer. “I have not tasted white blood for 20 years,” she warned. 

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The former president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions Gibson Sibanda was the first leader of the Movement for Democratic Change with current leader Morgan Tsvangirai taking on the…

“Mirai muone, tinoda kutwuona tunana popi itwotwo. Ndinopika namai vangu twuchandiona,” he said. One reader felt that ZANU-PF's time was up and he likened the party to a condom.

“I don’t know whether you can put education into politics because if that were the yardstick, then we (Zimbabwe) would be the best led country in the world, with the best run economy, the best run government, and the most respectable government because Mugabe has seven degrees, so it is not a basis,”  Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said 12 years ago just before the formation of the Movement for Democratic Change when it became apparent that he would become leader of the country’s biggest opposition party.

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The seeds for the formation of the Movement for Democratic Change were sown at a working people’s convention that was held from 26-28 February 1999. The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade…

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai turns 59 this week. To give our readers a chance to see the man for themselves we are going to publish a series of story on…

Zimbabwe makes interesting reading. The country has been dragged into an attempted US$60 million arms purchase by Swaziland. The only reason is that Swaziland did not allegedly need the array of weapons requested. Another ventured elsewhere is that the country was trying to make up for weapons from China that it had been stopped from getting. But even in the diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks, Zimbabwe was just mentioned in passing.

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