The Insider

Movement for Democratic Change secretary general Tendai Biti, who was totally opposed to any inclusive government that included President Robert Mugabe, told United States embassy officials that a Karanga faction of the MDC had held talks with Emmerson Mnangagwa but he did not say what the talks were about.

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Lucia Matibenga, the first vice-president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, was elected to serve as one of 56 members of the governing body of the International Labour Organisation in 2008.

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Many supporters of the Morgan Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change had become disenchanted by the splits within the party- the Mutambara breakaway in 2005 and the dismissal of Lucia Matibenga in 2007.

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The case of Lucia Matibenga had continued to divide the main faction of the Movement for Democratic Change as the country prepared for national elections in 2008 because the damage caused had not been healed according to the United States embassy.

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Movement for Democratic Change spokesman Nelson Chamisa felt that party leader Morgan Tsvangirai had blundered by removing Lucia Matibenga as chair of the Women’s League because her removal was potentially more destabilising than the rupture with the Arthur Mutambara faction.

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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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