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President Robert Mugabe answers reporters' questions in Copenhagen on Tuesday 14 December as he waits for the opening of the Climate Summit. Behind him you can see two of the MDC-Tsvangirai ministers who are part of his huge delegation (Energy Minister Elias Mudzuri and Sipepa Nkomo). Mugabe at the weekend showed he is still the Master of Patronage by co-opting a losing Provincial Candidate into the ZANU PF Central Committee. The two MDC ministers above are also getting the special Mugabe Patronage Treatment by accepting joyrides on the presidential chartered Jumbo Jet. Bought. Lock. Stock. Barrel.  Harare, Zimbabwe, 16 December 2009 One of the more interesting but less noticed aspects of the just-ended ZANU PF Congress in Harare was the co-option of Hubert Nyanhongo into the ZANU PF Central Committee. His co-option was made under a peculiar "presidential co-option" clause. This is interesting because, as you will recall from one of my most visited articles to this day, ...

It emerges now that the MDC-T is badly divided, with three factions all opposed to Morgan Tsvangirai working very hard to gain control of the structures of the party. Leading this race is the faction led by Lucia Matibenga, an MDC MP and former Women's Assembly Chair, who was ousted by Tsvangirai despite being elected at Congress to lead that body. In her place, Tsvangirai imposed Theresa Makone. The MDC-T leader is openly accused in National Council meetings of running the party in the same fashion Mugabe runs ZANU PF Harare, Zimbabwe, 24 October 2009 Revelations from within the National Council and the National Executive Council of the MdC-Tsvangirai show that the party is badly fractured, with three factions opposed to Morgan Tsvangirai all battling to gain supremacy in the opposition party led by the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. The infighting has gotten so bad, that the Minister of Energy in the Inclusive Government, former Harare Mayor Elias Mudzuri, who is also the Organising...