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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
... deputy president Thokhozani Khupe, secretary-general Tendai Biti, deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma, national organising secretary Ellias Mudzuri and spokesperson Nelson Chamisa.As time ticked away before Tsvangirai took to the podium, the supporters became weary and instead of chanting the party slogans started complaining of hunger.The supporters drowned the voice of Mudzuri...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
... of political violence, and for one of them, rape.The party said its deputy secretary general, Elton Mangoma, was apprehended on his way into the House of Assembly, but managed to escape arrest.Subsequently, the MDC legislators who made it to Parliament on Tuesday jeered and heckled President Mugabe throughout his keynote address.Reacting to the arrests, the MDC said the move was meant...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
... 21 by political parties engaged in the negotiations.MDC-Tsvangirai negotiators Tendai Biti and Elton Mangoma and Mutambara faction’s Priscillah Misihairambwi-Mushonga flew into South Africa on Wednesday and Zanu PF’s Patrick Chinamasa and Nicholas Goche left yesterday. Welshman Ncube (Mutambara camp) is leaving today."It is going to be a consultative meeting," one of the sources said....
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IOL (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
... negotiator of Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC faction, arrived earlier on Thursday. His co-negotiator, Elton Mangoma, and Zanu-PF representatives - Patrick Chinamasa and Nicholas Goche - had all landed in Joburg by Thursday night. Welshman Ncube, the lead negotiator of Mutambara's MDC, was due to arrive on Friday morning. "I don't know," was all Mbeki's spokesperson could say in an sms response...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Mutare West MP Mudiwa was released the same day on Monday but his colleague Jembere remains in police custody along with those arrested Tuesday. Although it was widely reported elsewhere that MDC deputy secretary general Elton Mangoma, one of the party's negotiators in South Africa, was arrested as he left parliament on Monday, party spokesman Nelson Chamisa said this was not so. Fellow...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... he would play a subservient role to Mr Mugabe. Mr Tsvangirai's key negotiator at the dialogue, Elton Mangoma, was also arrested by police yesterday, effectively dashing any hopes that meaningful talks would resume. Mr Mbeki was due to visit Zimbabwe this week to urge Mr Tsvangirai to sign the deal or face being left out of a new cabinet. But buoyed by the election of one of his MPs...
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CNN (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... MDC official said the arrests were part of a government ploy to skew the voting.A third member -- Elton Mangoma -- escaped an arrest attempt when other party members came to his rescue, MDC officials said.ZANU-PF lost its majority in the 210-seat parliament after the March 29 election, but vote recounts and political violence have delayed the body from convening until this week.Final...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... been the main sticking point in stalled power-sharing negotiations with Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC. Elton Mangoma, one of Mr Tsvangirai’s principal negotiators in the talks, was the MP who escaped arrest today. In his acceptance speech, Mr Moyo, chairman of the main MDC faction, declared that the parliament will “cease to be a rubber stamping house.” The MDC has 100 seats in parliament...
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CNN (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... Jembere had been accused of rape, but that he has been released from custody. A third member -- Elton Mangoma -- escaped an arrest attempt when other party members came to his rescue, MDC officials said. Attendance at the session of parliament is important since the membership is closely divided between the MDC and the ZANU-PF. The ruling ZANU-PF party lost its majority in the 210-seat...
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CNN (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... Jembere had been accused of rape, but that he has been released from custody. A third member -- Elton Mangoma -- escaped an arrest attempt when other party members came to his rescue, MDC officials said. Attendance at the session of parliament is important since the membership is closely divided between the MDC and the Mugabe's ZANU-PF. The ruling ZANU-PF party lost its majority in...
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This is Zimbabwe (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
MDC Press Release: Two MDC Members of Parliament, Hon Shuwa Mudiwa, Member of Parliament for Mutare West and Hon Elia Jembere of Epworth have been arrested just outside Parliament as they were entering the Parliamentary Bilding for the swearing in of Members of Parliament. The police attempted to arrest Hon Elton Mangoma, who is also one [...]
