After Morgan Tsvangirai — the future for opposition politics in Zimbabwe
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Zimbabweans will soon vote for who will be their president for the next five years. There is no date set, but it looks like an election will take place “in four to five months.” One striking characteristic of this upcoming poll is that neither of the two figures who dominated the country’s politics for the…
A man of the people: Morgan Tsvangirai
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“Come hell; come storm; come rains; come fire: please just go ahead and do things as we resolved here. Do not look back.” These words were said to Morgan Tsvangirai by his trade union colleague, Timothy Kondo, in 1999 when civic leaders decided to found the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). The new party was to challenge Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF’s nineteen-year rule of Zimbabwe, which by then had begun an unpopular program of economic liberalization…
#Morgan_Tsvangirai and Opposition #POLITICS in #Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe’s nationwide elections passed without bloodshed last month, but they were not free from controversy. On July 29, citizens went to the polls to elect a president and parliamentary representatives in the first electoral contest since 2008, and the first since Zimbabwe introduced a new constitution earlier this year. The candidates for the nation’s highest […]
James Richardson, dans le Guardian, accuse Wikileaks d’avoir sorti un câble qui met en danger la vie de Morgan Tsvangirai au Zimbabwe :
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/03/zimbabwe-morgan-tsvangirai
Un tweet émanant du compte officiel de Wikileaks signale qu’il n’est pas acceptable que le Guardian accuse Wikileaks de la publication d’un câble qu’il a lui-même sélectionné et publié :
►http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/22138391466344449
Explication sur WL central :
►http://wlcentral.org/node/820
Le Guardian s’excuse platement (on était en vacances et on est incompétents) ►http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2011/01/13/guardian-forced-to-print-embarrassing-correction-over-wikileaks-