Last Sunday, during the the violent clamp-down on civic and political attendance at a “Save Zimbabwe” prayer meeting, a young man was murdered in cold blood by the Zimbabwe police. This young man, Gift Tandare, was a popular member of the Movement for Democractic Change. He is left by a wife and young children,...

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Last Sunday, during the the violent clamp-down on civic and political attendance at a “Save Zimbabwe” prayer meeting, a young man was murdered in cold blood by the Zimbabwe police. This young man, Gift Tandare, was a popular member of the Movement for Democractic Change. He is left by a wife and young children,...

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‘They shifted gear when they saw Morgan’ Tendai Biti, secretary-general of the MDC, was one of the people who were badly assaulted in Highfield, Harare on Sunday. He managed to alert the world to Morgan Tsvangirai’s whereabouts. He spoke to Peta Thornycroft. “Even before Sunday, I knew we were going to get arrested. “The previous night we...

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‘They shifted gear when they saw Morgan’ Tendai Biti, secretary-general of the MDC, was one of the people who were badly assaulted in Highfield, Harare on Sunday. He managed to alert the world to Morgan Tsvangirai’s whereabouts. He spoke to Peta Thornycroft. “Even before Sunday, I knew we were going to get arrested. “The...

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We must abandon lone warrior mentality By Morgan Tsvangirai The following is Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s address to the Annual Foreign Correspondents Dinner in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Friday last week. I UNDERSTAND you had invited the governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to be with you at this...

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Comment from ZWNEWS, 14 March Straw man, straw men Challenged in a radio interview two days ago as to what South Africa was doing to try and stop the brutality witnessed in Zimbabwe since last weekend, South African government spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa replied: “What do you expect us to do? Send the tanks rolling...

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I am sure most of you would have seen the pictures of Morgan and his colleagues at Court yesterday. Many people have written to me and said they wept for those involved, I must say I was close, but I was also angry, very angry. In the aftermath we have had about 400 people...

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Issued: 13 March 2007 The Movement for Democratic Change and the working people of Zimbabwe are extremely shocked by the cold hearted and disingenuous response of the South African government to the detention and savage beating, at the hands of the Stalinist regime of Robert Mugabe, of President Morgan Tsvangirai and other pro-democratic leaders...

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The morning began with visiting the victims of the early morning shooting at the mourning of the late Gift Tandere. The victims were Dickson Magondo and Naison Mashanbanaka. What happened? The Police sneaked up on the mourners at 3 am, with their vehicle lights off and then opened fire on the mourners. Naison was...

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