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Thousands of exasperated Zimbabweans gathered Thursday in a nationwide protest over the country’s economic collapse and what the opposition calls the new government’s “cocktail of lies.” Some cheered the protesters from kilometers-long lines at gas stations that still have fuel.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will lead MDC’s demonstration against President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF’s misrule in Masvingo on Saturday (today).
MUTARE – Thousands of opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) supporters turned up at the Meikles Park in Mutare for another round of the party’s freedom marches against President Robert Mugabe’s continued rule. Party president Morgan Tsvangirai who is recovering from an operation held in South Africa last month was absent from the demonstration despite […]
By Tatenda Dewa Zanu PF has forced the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) to reschedule its demonstration in Manicaland to an earlier date, claiming that it already had been given approval to hold a meeting at the same venue, Meikles Park. The MDC-T rally will now take place on Thursday, 23 June, instead of the […]
By Bernard Chiketo MUTARE – The planned Mutare MDC demonstration date has been changed after police declined to clear next weekend’s date claiming Zanu PF had already booked that date. MDC provincial chairperson David Chimhini told a press conference yesterday that they had to reschedule the demonstration from June 25, a Saturday, to Thursday, June 23, […]
The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on Saturday carried out its second “freedom demonstration” in the second largest city of Bulawayo.
The High Court here has given the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC the green light to hold their planned May 28 protest against President Robert Mugabe’s alleged misrule.
By Blessings Mashaya Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his resurgent MDC party plan to roll out more protest marches around the country as they ratchet up the pressure on President Robert Mugabe in a bid to force the under-pressure and increasingly frail nonagenarian to call an early election. A buoyant MDC spokesperson Obert Gutu — […]
By Fungi Kwaramba and Blessings Mashaya There were signs on Thursday that following its recent lack of effervescence, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC is getting its mojo back, after the former prime minister in the government of national unity led a massive demonstration against Zanu PF’s misrule in Harare. Thousands of people — most of them […]
Thousands of MDC supporters on Thursday braved police intimidation and marched through the capital Harare demanding that President Robert Mugabe step down from power amid a worsening economic and political crisis. Former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai again demonstrated his pulling power by leading from the front and drawing an unexpectedly large crowd given previous efforts […]