The Insider

Movement for Democratic Change secretary general Welshman Ncube told United States embassy officials that though his party was willing to talk with the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front to ease tension within the country, radicals within the party were not interested in dialogue and just wanted President Robert Mugabe to go.

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Movement for Democratic Change secretary general Welshman Ncube believed that President Robert Mugabe was likely to declare a state of emergency rather than allow impeachment proceedings in parliament.

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Former Home Affairs Minister John Nkomo said a grenade attack on the Movement for Democratic Change headquarters in Harare was an inside job.

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A South African legislator Ebrahim Ebrahim told United States embassy officials that the outcome of the 2000 Zimbabwe elections in which the Movement for Democratic Change narrowly lost to the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was a welcome result because a ZANU-PF loss would have been destabilising.

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Retired general Solomon Mujuru was working closely with Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai after the signing of the Global Political Agreement in an effort to marginalise President Robert Mugabe.

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Arthur Mutambara was a firebrand student leader at the University of Zimbabwe. He went on to the United Kingdom to do his PhD and worked for various United States firms and organisations before coming to South Africa where he started his own company. It was while in South Africa that he was approached to lead the pro-senate faction of the Movement for Democratic Change as it was known at the time. Mutambara, it has transpired, was not the first, second, or even third choice. After a dismal performance in the 2008 elections Mutambara became deputy Prime Minister virtually because he was one of the principals to the Global Political Agreement. But he was soon kicked out of the leadership of the party. There are more than 150 cables on him. Here are the first 50.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front which lost its first election in 28 years to the Movement for Democratic Change in the March elections seemed to have designed a campaign of violence and intimidation of MDC supporters and legislators to destroy the party’s organisational capacity ahead of the presidential elections run-off.

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The editor of the Standard, Davison Maruziva was arrested on 8 May 2008 over an opinion piece written by the leader of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, Arthur Mutambara, in his paper on 20 April.

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The smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change led by Arthur Mutambara, which won only 10 seats in the 29 March elections but holds the balance of power, managed to squeeze a major concession from its bigger partner, the Tsvangirai-led faction, when it agreed to support Morgan Tsvangirai in the presidential elections run -off.

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The leader of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Arthur Mutambara and his secretary-general Welshman Ncube both lost seats in the 2008 elections but their party walked away with 10 of the 210 seats in the lower house.

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