The Insider

The leader of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Arthur Mutambara said the opposition was united to drive out President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.

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President Robert Mugabe wanted to retire as head of state before 2009 but he said he would remain in politics.

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Law professor Lovemore Madhuku has been at the helm of the National Constitutional Assembly since 2001. He had been vice-president from 1997. Madhuku had to get the constitution of the organisation amended in 2006 to allow him to contest as leader and now he is thinking of turning the organisation into a political party and will probably lead it. There are more than 50 Wikileaks cables that mention his name. Here is the first batch.

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Movement for Democratic Change candidate for the Kadoma Central by-election in 2003, Charles Mupandawana, complained that he had lost because he had not received adequate support from his party.

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The funeral of a Movement for Democratic Change activist, Gift Tandare, who was killed by the police, had to be postponed because most of the leaders of the party including leader Morgan Tsvangirai were in hospital after being beaten by police.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front which was increasingly losing support to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change had adopted a strategy of keeping the MDC on the defensive thus forcing it to devote its time and resources to litigation instead of a more proactive agenda.

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With the new constitution having been overwhelmingly approved, Zimbabwe can start to prepare for fresh elections – the first since the fateful polls in 2008.

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Figures don’t lie! Or do they? South Africa’s latest labour survey shows that 44 000 jobs were created in the first quarter of this year increasing the number of people in formal employment to 13.6 million.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan told Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai that the United States government could not help the party to set up an office in Washington because it was prohibited from supporting lobbying operations in the capital.

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