The debate in the House last week on the budget for 2011 was very interesting. All 19-portfolio committee chairpersons presented their views on the budget to a quiet and attentive House. It’s not normally like that – it fact it can get pretty rowdy and rough at times as the contesting parties take sides on  [ Read More ]

The Movement for Democratic Changes (MDC-USA), a province of the MDC-T on Saturday December 18, 2010 launched the new party card, dinner and fundraising at a function attended by both party members and many well wishers from Zimbabwe and across Africa. The event took place in Rockville, Maryland. Addressing the MDC-USA members’ only party card  [ Read More ]

Twenty three months ago, the MDC helped form the inclusive government in Zimbabwe. We were guided by the righteous and noble objective of stabilizing the economy and rescuing the people from the precipice of poverty, uncertainty, starvation and indignity wrought by three decades of corruption and misgovernance.

Events of the last few weeks have once again demonstrated that Zimbabwe is very much a part of the international community, albeit one whose membership is often associated with a primordial, knee jerk, straw clutching and gatcha mentality regardless of facts on the ground. Ordinarily it would have been laughable if the comments coming out  [ Read More ]

MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai’s Press Statement after the meeting of the MDC National Executive and National Council Harvest House, Harare Thursday, 16 December 2010

The rescheduled MDC-USA Party Card launch and fundraising event will now take place on December 18, 2010 at Montgomery County Education Association Conference Center, 12 Taft Court, Rockville, Maryland (MD).  The event will feature an all new MDC Party Card launch at 6 pm followed by an African themed dinner and entertainment. The launch, dinner  [ Read More ]

I had just left Parliament after the presentation of the 2011 budget and turned on my car radio to listen to the ZBC. I was shocked by what I heard. The commentator was asking a young man what he thought of the budget and the first thing he said was that Biti had done nothing  [ Read More ]

The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is ready to participate in the next free and fair elections in Zimbabwe, contrary to what ZANU PF and MDC-M’s are saying. Addressing the MDC–USA 2010 fourth quarterly Provincial External Assembly meeting on November 14, the MDC National Chairman and Speaker of Parliament Hon. Lovemore Moyo said “although we  [ Read More ]

ONE of the most popular cliches in Zimbabwe’s national conversation is “illegal western sanctions”. It is time to set the record straight. US sanctions are not blocking Zimbabwe’s economic recovery. The US does not maintain sanctions against the people of Zimbabwe or the country of Zimbabwe. US sanctions target individuals and entities that have undermined  [ Read More ]

The MDC Road Map for resolving the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe was very simple – a campaign of democratic resistance to force Zanu PF into negotiations, negotiations for a transitional government, the drafting and adoption of a new constitution followed by a national election to resolve the issue of leadership of the State.  [ Read More ]