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Britain and the European Union have no intention of lifting sanctions on President Robert, British Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Alistair Burt said on Tuesday.
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Elton Mangoma, a chartered accountant who has worked for some of the country’s biggest companies, was a founding member of the Movement for Democratic Change. He is the party’s deputy treasurer and currently Minister of Energy. Prior to the formation of the inclusive government, Mangoma was reported to be eyeing the post of Finance Minister. He was the MDC-T’s other negotiator with Finance Minister Tendai Biti. Though said to be a close advisor of MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, there were whispers that Mangoma was really former General Solomon Mujuru’s man. There are 43 Wikileaks cables on him. Here they are.
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Movement for Democratic Change negotiator Elton Mangoma told United States embassy officials that agreement between the MDC and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was inevitable but one of the sticking points was the duration of the transitional government.
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Vice-President Simon Muzenda, one of President Robert Mugabe’s most loyal cadres, is reported to have told Mugabe at his deathbed that he wanted then defence forces chief Vitalis Zvinavashe to succeed him as Member of Parliament for Gutu North and as vice-President.
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Bishop Trevor Manhanga, one of the three bishops from Manicaland who were trying to broker talks between the Movement for Democratic Change and the Zimbabwe African national Union-Patriotic Front, said President Robert Mugabe was “cordoned off” from their meetings.
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David Coltart rose to fame in the 1980s when he defended senior Zimbabwe African People’s Union politicians such as Sidney Malunga, Edward Ndlovu and Stephen Nkomo, all dead now, when they were being harassed during the 1980s civil strife when ZAPU was accused of trying to topple President Robert Mugabe’s government. Mugabe was Prime Minister at the time. He then set up the Bulawayo Legal Projects Centre to help those who could not afford lawyers. This further catapulted him to fame leading to his election as a Movement for Democratic Change Member of Parliament in 2000. Coltart was a former member of the Rhodesia police before going to South Africa to study law. He is currently the Minister of Education in the inclusive government. There are 96 Wikileaks cables on him. Here they are.
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Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett was concerned, just a month before the 2008 elections, that secretary-general Tendai Biti might defect and join Simba Makoni.
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Leaders of the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, were agreed that reunification of the party was the only way forward but they were facing stiff resistance from hardliners within their factions.
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A member of the pro-senate faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Trudy Stevenson was attacked by some youths who she claimed where from the Morgan Tsvangirai faction of the MDC.
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So-called journalist Andrisson Manyere was arrested together with two other people during a demonstration by members of the Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise.
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