Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)

The strike poses a problem for President Emmerson Mnangagwa who wants to revive a sluggish economy ahead of elections set for July in which he faces a revitalized opposition Movement for Democratic Change party led by 40-year-old Nelson Chamisa. The Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZNA), which ...

He comes up against 40-year-old Nelson Chamisa of the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC-T), the main opponent for the presidency. Reports by the state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation indicates that President Mnangagwa has lighted the independence flame and the First ...

Movement for Democratic Change leader Nelson Chamisa says the party has a fantastic economic programme which it will soon launch and roll out to the ... He said the party was being cautious because the President had not yet proclaimed the date for elections and there was a danger of the Zimbabwe ...

Khupe insisted that she was MDC-T acting president, arguing the party's constitution gave her the locus standi to claim the post following the death of party founder Morgan Tsvangirai on February 14. Madhuku argued that Chamisa's faction was supposed to give the court the party constitution to buttress ...

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Stanley Manguma, aspiring @MDC_T_ candidate for Gutu West Constituency, was brutally assaulted by soldiers from 4.2 Brigade at Mpandawana Growth point yesterday. Manguma and his colleagues were driving to the @MDCAllianceZW rally in Nyika. Manguma and co were stopped at an intersection ...

MDC Alliance partners here are allegedly failing to pay $40 to a disc jockey (DJ) they hired with his equipment for MDC-T president Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's memorial service in February. Mr Tsvangirai died on February 14 and the MDC Alliance held a memorial service at the Large City Hall on February 17.

In October 2012, Nelson Chamisa wrote a piece titled "MDC-T: Last mile towards real change," where he stated Zimbabwe "saunters towards the demise of the ultimate phase of a hard transition." He said he believed the people of this country had "subliminally" long stored decisions about an ideal future.

Harare – Zimbabwe's main opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, is reportedly facing a major split after its embattled deputy president, Thokozani Khupe, announced over the weekend that she would be joining forces with the country's former deputy president Joice Mujuru's ...

The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has been torn by infighting, before and even during the demise of Morgan Tsvangirai, its founding leader. His death on February 14th provoked a massive outpouring of grief in Harare that rattled the government. It may be easier for the main ...

THE embattled MDC-T party on Thursday suspended its national spokesperson Obert Gutu with immediate effect. The decision to suspend Gutu was made by the national council which met for almost six-hours and came up with eight resolutions. The deputy national chairman Morgan Komichi who was ...

... weight behind the ruling Zanu-PF party, saying that they would not allow a "toddler" to rule the southern African country. Zimbabwe was expected to go to its first presidential elections without long-time rivals Robert Mugabe and the late Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

FILE: Members of the Movement for Democratic Change party carry the coffin of Zimbabwe's iconic opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai who died last week after a battle with cancer, during his burial on February 20, 2018, at his rural village Humanikwa in Buhera, Manicaland province. / AFP PHOTO ...

Zimbabwean voters include some of the most civic-minded and intelligent citizens in the land. But opposition politicians, especially the MDC ones, have proved to be a fiasco and a volatile troupe incapable of offering a credible and coherent alternative that commands hegemonically, the political, social and ...

HARARE ‑ Former Vice President and leader of the opposition party, National People's Party, Joice Mujuru, has announced her decision to join the MDC Alliance. “Be ready, be excited, we are joining the MDC Alliance,” she announced on her Facebook social networking page Wednesday. MDC Alliance is ...

More than 5,000 people have attended the burial of Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in his home village after he died of colon cancer. The burial was marred by divisions in the party he formed and led, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Crowds booed two leaders challenging ...

The death of Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's totemic opposition leader, has left supporters in mourning - and his party having to navigate a precarious leadership transition ahead of landmark presidential elections. In Tsvangirai's place, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) installed on Thursday ...

The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formation led by Nelson Chamisa has recalled former Deputy Prime Minister and MDC-T vice president Thokozani Khupe from parliament, claiming that she is no longer a member of the opposition party. But a furious Khupe says she has hired an attorney to ...

Nowhere has this been better demonstrated than in Zimbabwe recently, where the tragic death of long-time opposition leader and former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai has plunged his party, the Movement for Democratic Change — Tsvangirai (MDC-T) into an intense and bitter leadership crisis.