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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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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai was confident that he would be the driver of policy in the new government of national unity because he was going to chair the Council of Ministers.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee five days before the signing of the Global Political Agreement that he had presented a proposal to President Robert Mugabe to create a Leadership Council of State.

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