The Insider

Zimbabwe’s women can bring about sanity in parliament, preserve national unity and end corruption in the country’s parastatals, according to Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, the only senior member of Welshman Ncube’s Movement for Democratic Change still a legislator.

Misihairabwi-Mushonga, the former Minister of Regional Integration, said the bringing in of more women in parliament would change the way debate was done in parliament because there was now more oestrogen than testosterone.

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A leading member of the Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai displayed how arrogance cost the party the 31 July elections. He told the people of Insiza South that since he was a member of the national executive even if he got a person from the toilet, they had to vote for him.

According to a report by the Solidarity Peace Trust –End of a road- the 2013 elections in Zimbabwe: “LM came. He first spoke about devolution. In the end he introduced the candidate he imposed, and then we asked him- we asked him what kind of devolution he was talking about. Because you spoke about devolution first, and then you introduce your imposed candidate….? He then went on to say because he is at national level whatever he says goes. He said even if he got that person from the toilet, it was a must for us to vote for him. We said no! We don’t know that person. Things got messed up.”

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Tsvangirai throws in the towel-Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai today withdrew his presidential election court challenge in which he was calling for the nullification of the 31 July elections won by Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leader Robert Mugabe. Tsvangirai also said the presence of Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku at the National Heroes Acre addressed by President-elect Robert Mugabe was likely to deprive him of a fair hearing.

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President Robert Mugabe has finally let the cat out of the bag. Jonathan Moyo was responsible for the well-oiled 2013 Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front campaign which saw Mugabe win 61 percent of the presidential vote and his party score more than a two-thirds majority in parliament.

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