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Firebrand Edgar Tekere said President Robert Mugabe was to blame for 90 percent of the country’s problems. In his book, A lifetime of struggle, Tekere said people should not blame one man for all that had gone wrong in the country, but in the case of Zimbabwe Mugabe was at the centre of the country’s problems.

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Former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front secretary general and founder of the Zimbabwe Union Movement, Edgar Tekere, has died. At one time he was President Robert Mugabe’s number two but he was expelled from the party in 1988 after opposing the drive towards a one-party state and condemning increasing corruption with the party and the government. Although ZANU-PF readmitted him to the party in 2005, he was fired again after writing his book: A lifetime of struggle. In the introduction to the book, he mentioned who his true friends were. Here they are:

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A man who took President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to court to force them to cut their cabinet to 31 ministers has lost the case. 

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A British Member of Parliament Kate Hoey today said Britain should talk to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai because his party, the Movement for Democratic Change, speaks for Zimbabwe now. President Robert Mugabe’s days are gone and he lives in the past.

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