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Tasting Good Life, Opposition in Zimbabwe Slips Off Pedestal

HARARE, Zimbabwe — The guests arrived in Bentleys, Benzes and BMWs. At a plush, riverside wedding in an upscale suburb, the wine and spirits flowed and tables groaned with the ample buffet. Politicians, celebrities, diplomats and business leaders mingled to … read more »

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Zimbabwe: Why Has Support For The MDC Plummeted So Much?

BY SIMUKAI TINHU Fourteen years ago, Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) launched itself onto Zimbabwe’s political scene with great local and international fanfare. The MDC was seen as having given rise to a new understanding … read more »

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Zimbabwe: Plans Underway to Arrest Tsvangirai for Treason

By Audrey Charowa, zimeye There is an undercover, highly funded, premeditated plot to arrest Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on a named date just before elections and charge him with treason, it has emerged. This development now revealed comes after Justice Miunister … read more »

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Open Letter: Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Will Not Prosecute Robert Mugabe

zimeye My 7th Letter To The People of Zimbabwe At Large Dear fellow Zimbos, Hope l find you well. You need to be kept abreast of events taking place in Zimbabwe and their implications. On 16 March we all went … read more »

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Zimbabwe PM clashes with Mugabe over poll observers

HARARE — Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday challenged the claims of President Robert Mugabe’s supporters that international observers would not be allowed to monitor upcoming elections. With Zimbabweans set to vote on a constitutional referendum on Saturday and … read more »

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Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe’s last throw?

The endorsement of a new constitution will presage fresh elections. It is uncertain whether Robert Mugabe and his party would allow anybody else to win. AFTER more than a year of stalling and name-calling, President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF … read more »

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Africa: Polling Time in Kenya and Zimbabwe

By Ozias Tungwarara, Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (Johannesburg) analysis Kenya and Zimbabwe hold critical elections this year. Kenyans will go to the polls on 4th March to elect a president, members of the senate and parliament, county governors, … read more »

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Zimbabwe elections expected in July:Tsvangirai

(Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Wednesday he expected presidential and parliamentary elections in July after a nationwide vote on a new constitution next month.   Tsvangirai also said he did not fear a repeat of violence … read more »

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Robert Mugabe may rule Zimbabwe for another 10 years

HARARE — Robert Mugabe — who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence nearly 33 years ago — may stay in power for another decade if he is reelected according to a new draft constitution. The new basic law, seen by AFP … read more »

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Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai : A Critical View

By Simukai Tinhu The tendency of international statesmen to praise ‘the man of the moment’ through an awards system or complementary rhetoric is amongst one of the most endearing features of contemporary international politics. But sometimes international leaders get it … read more »

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Zimbabwe: Morgan Tsvangirai – Fast Facts

Here’s a look at the life of Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. Personal Birth date: March 10, 1952 Birth place: Gutu, Masvingo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) Birth name: Morgan Richard Tsvangirai Father: Chibwe Tsvangirai, a bricklayer Mother: Lydia Zvaipa Marriages: … read more »

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Zimbabwe: Mugabe, Tsvangirai strike poll pact

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is reportedly ready to relinquish power to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai should the premier win critical elections expected around June this year, the Zimbabwe Independent has learnt. Report by Owen Gagare Sources close to the two erstwhile … read more »

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Zimbabwe’s Mugabe to Call Election If Negotiations Stall

Bloomberg Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe will call an election if there is no progress in resolving a dispute over constitutional reforms this month, a negotiator for his party said. An agreement brokered by the 15-nation Southern African Development Community in … read more »

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Zimbabwe: Wounded Mugabe might come unstuck

EVEN if he fights like a wounded beast, President Robert Mugabe will not be assured of an outright victory in next year’s elections, analysts have warned. KHOLWANI NYATHI Mugabe responded to the weekend formal endorsement of his candidature to run … read more »

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Tsvangirai slams Mugabe: “There is no wounded lion”

HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today castigated statements by Robert Mugabe at his party’s Zanu PF conference that this time he will fight like a wounded lion. “There is no wounded lion. Who would you want to fight? Who … read more »

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Tsvangirai’s Botswana connection

So what was Morgan Tsvangirai doing in Botswana? Mmegi’s Zimbabwean correspondent BILLY MAGEDI looks at the Movement for Democratic Change-T (MDC-T) leader’s close relationship with Gaborone and its implications for Botswana-Zimbabwe relations and Zimbabwean politics. HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe … read more »

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Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe’s divide-and-rule script

DEVOTED Zimbabwe watchers will have noticed a change in events typically preceding any elections in the country, especially during the past decade. Report by Mthulisi Mathuthu Usually, President Robert Mugabe sets the ball rolling with either brazen or thinly-veiled threats … read more »

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Zimbabwe PM, ex-lover to settle

Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is working on an out-of-court settlement with an ex-lover who he dumped to marry another woman, lawyers said on Thursday. Locardia Karimatsenga Tembo had gone to a civil court demanding $15 000 per month for … read more »

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Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai’s open-mouth shut-mind policy disposition

by Professor Jonathan Moyo If there is one truth about Morgan Tsvangirai’s taking into account his recent public display of his open-zip-shut-mind sexual orientation and his open-mouth-shut-mind policy disposition – that have combined to make him more of a national … read more »

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Is Zimbabwe PM a victim of vicious smear campaign?

MORGAN Tsvangirai is a man under pressure. Ahead of next year’s elections the Zimbabwean prime minister is trying to deliver a new constitution, revive a troubled economy and manage a difficult relationship with President Robert Mugabe. Yet one of Tsvangirai’s … read more »

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Tsvangirai’s ‘love triangle apology’ not good enough

One does not have to be a women’s rights activist to sadly note that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s purported apology to the women he used and abused and dumped before settling for Elizabeth Macheka, is not good enough. Addressing his … read more »

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Zimbabwe PM Tsvangirai apologises for his love triangle

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai used the MDC-Ts 13 anniversary celebrations in Bulawayo at the weekend to apologise for his love triangle that has blighted his otherwise outstanding role in the struggle for democracy. Tsvangirai was linked to a string of … read more »

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Tsvangirai has many degrees in leadership

By Herbert Mugwagwa ZANU(PF) seems paranoid and even the article written by their faithful but ‘lost’ propagandist Dr Tafataona Mahoso shows that it is so (Sunday Mail,16-22 September 2012 refers). The old scholar first gives an example of the bilateral … read more »

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Zimbabwe PM marriage saga takes new twist

PATRICE MAKOVA,The Standard PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s marriage saga has taken a new twist. His emissaries have admitted in court papers that they went against instructions and paid lobola instead of damages to jilted Locardia Karimatsenga’s family. Tsvangirai last week … read more »

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Morgan Tsvangirai’s messy love life is a gift to his enemies

Poor judgment about private life gives cause for concern Guardian News & Media Ltd Harare: Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, believes that intelligence agents loyal to president Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party orchestrated a plot to humiliate and embarrass him … read more »

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Zimbabwe PM ex-lover humiliated

Eleventh-hour efforts by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s estranged lover Locardia Karimatsenga to stop his weekend wedding suffered a heavy blow after the High Court dismissed her urgent application yesterday. High Court judge Justice Antonia Guvava advised Karimatsenga, who was seeking … read more »

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Zimbabwe: Morgan Tsvangirai under seige‏

By Herbert Mugwagwa Locardia poorly advised: Tsvangirai, Court has no Jurisdiction over my wedding – Tsvangirai, Tsvangirai aides’ confident wedding will go ahead as planned – these were some of the top stories on Wednesday morning just as Prime Minister … read more »

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Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai wedding war

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s estranged lover Locardia Karimatsenga Tembo yesterday filed an urgent application at the High Court seeking an interdict to stop the Premier’s September 15 wedding. But soon after Karimatsenga’s lawyer Tawanda Kanengoni of Munangati and Associates filed … read more »

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Zimbabwe PM’s ex lover sue him for maintenance

PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s ex-lover Locadia Karimatsenga Tembo has dragged the PM to court claiming US$15 000 monthly maintenance for her upkeep as she has been accustomed to. Ms Tembo also  claims that the PM could have left her because she … read more »

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Tsvangirai: A Self Serving Machine

by Denford Everyone agrees that one of the next President of Zimbabwe’s urgent tasks will be to address the infrastructure. Some of Zimbabwe’s infrastructure is worse than the Stone Age period. Some people have not flushed their toilets in more … read more »

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