Minister of State Security Didymus Mutasa said the Southern African Development Community Tribunal was “daydreaming” after it ruled that Zimbabwe’s land reform programme was racially discriminatoryand violated Zimbabwe's SADC treaty obligations with regard to upholding the rule of law and respect for human rights. Mutasa’s comments were a clear indication that the government would not
Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front central committee member Manatsa Mutasa told United States embassy officials that ZANU-PF had told central committee members that Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai had won 48 percent of the 2008 presidential vote and Robert Mugabe 43 percent so ZANU-PF was preparing for war because there was no guarantee
Though one of the winners in the 2008 elections, Silvester Nguni seemed to have been brought into the new government as an afterthought because he was not among the 15 ministers that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was allocated under the Global Political Agreement. President Robert Mugabe negotiated for an expanded cabinet of 19
Movement for Democratic Change-Mutambara faction secretary general Welshman Ncube was more aggressive to get an agreement during the tripartite negotiations for a solution to Zimbabwe’s crisis than the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, according to one of the negotiators Elton Mangoma. Mangoma who was from the Tsvangirai faction said Ncube piled pressure on Tsvangirai to
Professor Heneri Dzinotyiwei was appointed to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s cabinet because he was one of the people within the Movement to for Democratic Change that Tsvangirai felt could stand-up to the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front. This was said by political analysts John Makamure and John Makumbe soon after the formation of the.