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Speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo of the MDC-Tsvangira now stands accused of corruption by the MDC Mutambara, who say he is failing to publish thier notice that the MPs expelled from MDC Mutambara are no longer MPs. The Speaker is accused of actually addressing meeting being held by the expelled MPs as they rally their constituencies behind them. This fight is part of Tsvangirai's strategy and is the reason why no noise is being made about the failure of Mugabe to call by-elections before 15 September, after which the parties will be allowed to contest against each other. Harare, Zimbabwe, 14 August 2009 Welshman Ncube, the Secretary General of the MDC led by Arthur Mutambara held a press conference yesterday at which they alleged that the MDC Tsvangirai Speaker of Parliament is engaged in corruption with regards the expelled MDC Mutambara MPs. MDC have given the Speaker until Tuesday to publish notification that the seats are now vacant, failing which they will have him charged ...

Arthur Mutambara is seen here with harassed, assaulted Zimbabwean farmer, Ben Freeth. We broke the story about the intended recall of Mutambara by his party right here on this blog last week on Wednesday. This blog continues its fine tradition of publishing scoops and inside information that is being proved true left right and centre. Just in the last week we brought you two such scoops.  On Wednesday, I published a story scoop here telling you news about the imminent "firing" of Arthur Mutambara, Zimbabwe's Deputy Prime Minister. The very next day, on Thursday, Zimbabwe Financial Gazette carried that story on their front page!! Then on Friday, we brought you the story about the Reserve Bank Zimbabwe Governor asking all his staff to return their cars to the Reserve Bank Sports Club so that he could offer even more cars to even more MPs.  On Sunday, two days later, the Standard confirmed that story and did an even longer piece on the issue, saying some of the RBZ staff had...

Zimbabwe's Deputy Prime Minister and President of the MDC, Arthur Mutambara, is seen here with Ben Freeth, a white farmer under siege at his farm and whose photo I have published here before, showing him beaten black and blue by people who are after his farm, which has been gazetted by Mugabe for forcible acquisition. Mutambara's future is now under threat. Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the MDC-M is about to be fired and recalled by his party. A rally scheduled for this weekend in the satellite town of Chitungwiza is the platform at which this action will almost certainly be taken. Spearheading this rebellion is former St Mary's MP Job Sikhala, who is the one organising the rally. Top of the grievances is that Arthur Mutambara, Prof. Welshman Ncube and other MDC leaders now in government have abandoned the party. One source put it this way: "We are now headless chickens. We have no leadership as far as the people are concerned." Sikhala and his fellow plotte...