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	CalendarHome.com - Morgan Tsvangirai - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Morgan Tsvangirai, (IPA pronunciation: ['mɔ(r)gən ˌtʃæŋgə'raι]; born March 10, 1952) is a Zimbabwean politician and trade unionist and the leader and founder of the Movement for Democratic Change, the opposition party in Zimbabwe.
		Tsvangirai was born in the Gutu area in central Zimbabwe, the eldest of nine children and the son of a carpenter and bricklayer.
		In 2004, Tsvangirai was acquitted of treason for an alleged plot to assassinate Mugabe in the run-up to the 2002 presidential elections.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Morgan_Tsvangirai (731 words)

	Morgan Tsvangirai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Morgan Tsvangirai ( more-gan chang-ir-ai) (born March 10, 1952) is a Zimbabwean politician and the leader and founder of the Movement for Democratic Change, the opposition party in Zimbabwe.
		Tsvangirai was born in the Gutu area in central Zimbabwe, the eldest of nine children and the son of a carpenter and bricklayer.
		Tsvangirai became branch chairman of the Associated Mine Workers Union and was later elected into the executive of the National Mine Workers Union, and in 1988 he became the Secretary-General on the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, the largest trade union organization in the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morgan_Tsvangirai (475 words)

	Tsvangirai a serious threat to Mugabe - Boston.com
		Morgan Tsvangirai, the most serious political threat to Zimbabwe's longtime president, pursued a strategy of low-profile civil disobedience until this week, when he appeared at a banned opposition meeting.
		Tsvangirai was taken to a hospital Tuesday under police guard after appearing briefly in court along with about 50 activists arrested while trying to attend a prayer meeting.
		Tsvangirai accused the ruling party of rigging parliamentary elections that year and called on Zimbabweans to defend their vote, but did not make clear how the opposition would fight back.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2007/03/14/tsvangirai_a_serious_threat_to_mugabe (650 words)

	Kubatana - Archive - Morgan Tsvangirai's court challenge on the 2002 Zimbabwean Presidential Election - Summary & ...
		Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), is asking the High Court to set aside the result of the Zimbabwean presidential election of 9 to 11 March 2002.
		Morgan Tsvangirai presented evidence of these abuses that he claims demonstrate that the presidential election was rigged and stolen.
		Morgan Tsvangirai will argue that section 158 of the Electoral Act is unconstitutional, and that this invalidates the 2002 presidential elections because the conduct and outcome of the elections was strongly influenced by regulations made under section 158.
	www.kubatana.net /html/archive/demgg/031014mdc2.asp?sector=DEMGG&year=2003&range_start=1 (2040 words)

	The Black Commentator - Interview with Morgan Tsvangirai - Issue 51 - Printer Friendly Version
		Morgan Tsvangirai: What is needed is a national healing process; we in MDC are talking about, exploring, the question of a Truth and Reconciliation or Truth and Justice Commission, but what we are meaning and intending to do is to restore due and lawful process: impunity can only be dealt with by due process.
		Morgan Tsvangirai: The MDC sees the liberation struggle as a national and peoples’ struggle, it is not owned by one party, even less by the elite or individuals within one party.
		Morgan Tsvangirai: Countries of the north — the European Union, the United States, Canada, other countries of Europe — need to continue and increase their isolation of the ruling clique of Zimbabwe, to be consistent in use of the sanctions that they have imposed, and to develop new forms of pressure.
	www.blackcommentator.com /51/51_zim_tsvangirai_pf.html (2612 words)

	SABCnews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Morgan Tsvangirai reflects on the way forward, in the run-up to MDC mass action to put pressure on Robert Mugabe and the ruling elite, to break the deadlock caused by the intransigence of the ZANU leadership.
		Morgan Tsvangirai: What is needed is a national healing process; we in MDC are talking about, exploring, the question of a Truth and Reconciliation or Truth and Justice Commission, but what we are meaning and intending to do is to restore due and lawful process: impunity can only be dealt with by due process.
		Morgan Tsvangirai: The MDC sees the liberation struggle as a national and peoples’ struggle, it is not owned by one party, even less by the elite or individuals within one party.
	www.sabcnews.com /features/tsvangirai (2508 words)

	BBC News \| FORUM \| Quiz Zimbabwe's opposition leader
		Morgan Tsvangirai: I think that elections will be held, but they will be held under circumstances of high levels of intolerance, high levels of violence and intimidation, and lack of access by the opposition to the state media.
		Morgan Tsvangirai: There's going to be a serious setback in organising people, because if the organisation in the campaign is going to rely on the president of the party, we cannot cover the whole country.
		Morgan Tsvangirai: We have said that we are committed to deal with issues of corruption and the issue of past crimes committed but it will have to be organised in such a way that we don't provide a basis for instability in the future.
	newsvote.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/talking_point/forum/newsid_727000/727016.stm (1581 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Profile: Morgan Tsvangirai
		Morgan Tsvangirai emerged from a trade union background to become the most effective opposition leader in Zimbabwe since independence.
		Born in 1952 in Buhera in eastern Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai was the eldest son of a bricklayer.
		The young Morgan left secondary school to become a textile weaver, but then went to work in a mine in Bindera, north-east of Harare, where he became involved in union actitivies and rose rapidly to become leader of the mining union.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/713207.stm (484 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Morgan Tsvangirai is the president of the Movement for Democratic Change, the southern African country's largest opposition group.
		Morgan Tsvangirai: It is very important for the focus to be on the economy because everything is affected by it.
		Morgan Tsvangirai: The presence of MDC in parliament represented a significant democratic advance for the country.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/liveonline/00/world/tsvangirai1128.htm (2533 words)

	Beating turns Tsvangirai into symbol - CNN.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tsvangirai, the head of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), was in intensive care on Wednesday with a suspected cracked skull, his spokesman said, adding to concern over his welfare after what his supporters say was a brutal beating in police custody.
		Tsvangirai was at risk of fading from the political scene until this week when he and other opposition leaders were arrested and allegedly assaulted after an anti-government rally.
		Analysts say Tsvangirai's future, health permitting, hinges on whether he is able to sustain pressure on Mugabe and exploit divisions in the ruling party while uniting the opposition for presidential and parliamentary elections in 2008 and 2010.
	edition.cnn.com /2007/WORLD/africa/03/14/tsvangirai.profile.reut/index.html (653 words)

	Zimbabwe police accused of torture - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tsvangirai and the others were still being denied access to further medical attention and to legal advice.
		Tsvangirai accused the ruling party of rigging parliamentary elections that year and called on Zimbabweans to defend their vote, but did not make clear how.
		Tsvangirai 54, rose from humble beginnings as a textile factory worker and labor leader to form the first credible opposition to Mugabe and his party, but Mugabe clung to power amid Zimbabwe's deepening political and economic crisis and worsening repression.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2007-03-12-zimbabwe_N.htm?csp=34 (807 words)

	The Tsvangirai Conspiracy
		MORGAN TSVANGIRAI: We have been actually at the receiving end of the terrorist actions of this government, not that we have initiated anything to warrant those kinds of labels.
		Tsvangirai is on record as having said that he was going to remove the President by violence.
		Tsvangirai's problem is how to seize power after the assassination, but he is unwilling to discuss what arrangements he has with sections of the military.
	www.thetalkingdrum.com /mugabe.html (5567 words)

	Who is Morgan Tsvangirai? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Morgan Tsvangarai's popularity among the labour union members and consumers was high as he oppossed to the price hike of commodities.
		We should remember a day to the presidential election Morgan Tsvangirai told the rally in Bulawayo that he was going to form a commission for reconciliation to correct the wrong done from the past two years.
		To the MDC this wasn't suppose to be given to the Africans because the land was used for political purposes and farming on it was to be resumed once Morgan Tsvangirai was a President of Zimbabwe.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-122_1163951,00.html (1164 words)

	Zimbabwe Court Clears Leader of Opposition (washingtonpost.com)
		Morgan Tsvangirai, left, the leader of Zimbabwe's opposition group, Movement for Democratic Change, toasts his verdict with party vice president Gibson Sabanda at his house in Harare.
		Tsvangirai and other leaders of his party, the Movement for Democratic Change, have consistently portrayed the prosecution as a political maneuver designed to discredit him.
		Tsvangirai maintained that he had spoken only about his hopes for victory at the polls, and that Menashe had been hired by the government to entrap him.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A34587-2004Oct15.html (669 words)

	Zimbabwe opposition leader behind bars - World - smh.com.au
		Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, was one of dozens of MDC officials and activists detained in the Highfields area after they tried to defy a ban on protests in the capital.
		Tsvangirai was detained near the venue of the planned demonstration as he tried to visit a police station where some of his colleagues were being held.
		Tsvangirai's lawyer Alec Muchadehama said he had so far been "denied access" to his client and had not even been told where he was being held.
	www.smh.com.au /news/world/zimbabwe-opposition-leader-behind-bars/2007/03/12/1173548054421.html (881 words)

	Zimbabwe: Amnesty International welcomes acquittal of Morgan Tsvangirai - news.amnesty - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tsvangirai was a politically-motivated prosecution in keeping with a wider pattern of arrest and trial on spurious charges as a form of harassment of the political opposition in Zimbabwe.
		Morgan Tsvangirai, both in his capacity as Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions in the 1990s, and in his capacity as leader of the MDC since 2002 has been repeatedly arrested and assaulted.
		The second charge of treason was based on an alleged incitement to engage in a march to unseat the government in the so-called "final push" in June 2003.
	news.amnesty.org /index/ENGAFR460332004 (247 words)

	AfricaFiles \| Violet Gonda talks to MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Morgan Tsvangirai: Well, the problem is that parliament has proven to be a worthless exercise in so far as you can make noise but Mugabe ensured that he had his two thirds in March last year, in 2005, and so the debate by the opposition is just merely an exercise in futility.
		Morgan Tsvangirai: Well, we have extended our patriotic hand to say that all patriots must come together now at this critical juncture in the history of the country, to have one common purpose, which is one common purpose in so far as ensuring that the elections are conducted as scheduled.
		Morgan Tsvangirai: No there is, there is already a forum, there is already a platform where all the political parties in the opposition and the civic society are working together under the ‘Save Zimbabwe’ campaign, and we have a programme for the whole year that we have outlined together.
	www.africafiles.org /article.asp?ID=14048&ThisURL=./zimbabwe.asp&URLName=Zimbabwe (2978 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Zimbabwe
		Morgan Tsvangirai, MDC president and former leader of the country's trade union movement, failed to win a seat.
		Meanwhile, Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), was arrested twice in the space of a month but was released on both occasions.
		Tsvangirai was acquitted of charges of treason in October 2004.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761575825__1/Zimbabwe.html (6887 words)

	ABC News: Tsvangirai a Serious Threat to Mugabe
		Police took the 54-year-old Tsvangirai from a courtroom to a hospital, and doctors reported Wednesday that they suspect he suffered a skull fracture and internal bleeding.
		Tsvangirai told the British Broadcasting Corp. from his hospital bed that police beat him on the head, that he suffered blows to the knees and back, and that his arm was broken.
		Mugabe has consistently portrayed Tsvangirai, a married father of seven, as a stooge of Britain and the United States, and Tsvangirai has been assaulted and harassed in the past.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2950781&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (408 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Profile: Morgan Tsvangirai
		Morgan Tsvangirai has risen from working in a mine to becoming one of the most important political figures in Zimbabwe - even if his dreams of becoming president remain elusive.
		Mr Tsvangirai was acquitted, but for 20 months he had the possibility of a death penalty hanging over his head.
		For the moment, Morgan Tsvangirai is the figurehead for all the disparate groups opposed to Mr Mugabe: unemployed and low-wage fl workers; wealthy white farmers and industrialists and ethnic Ndebeles who remember the government's murderous campaign against them in the early 1980s.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1870283.stm (991 words)

	Zimbabwe opposition leader hospitalized - Africa - MSNBC.com
		Morgan Tsvangirai, who remains hospitalized, underwent a brain scan, and his lawyer said he may have suffered a skull fracture and internal bleeding as a result of police beatings.
		Tsvangirai told the British Broadcasting Corp. in an interview from his hospital bed that police beat him on the head, and that he suffered body blows to the knees and back, and that his arm was broken.
		Tsvangirai was in a hospital unit where he could be more closely monitored and was awaiting the results of a brain scan for a suspected skull fracture, said Tafadza Mugabe, one of his lawyers.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/17608712 (788 words)

	Morgan Tsvangirai - Zimbabwe's Opposition Leader Is Released
		Tsvangirai denies those allegations, saying he called for peaceful protests to get Mugabe, 79, to the negotiating table to discuss the nation's worsening political and economic crisis and his possible retirement after 23 years in power.
		Tsvangirai and two senior opposition officials are already on trial on treason charges, which carries a possible death penalty, for allegedly plotting to assassinate Mugabe two years ago.
		Tsvangirai who is facing a second count of treason, which carries the death penalty, after the state said he asked his supporters to violently overthrow President Robert Mugabe, has spent the last two weeks in custody.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/932726/posts (935 words)

	Spokesman: Mugabe rival has 'cracked' skull - CNN.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tsvangirai was taken to hospital with a deep head wound on Tuesday soon after arriving at court.
		Sunday's arrests, which occurred as Tsvangirai and other opposition supporters attempted to attend a prayer vigil, came as Zimbabwe faced a deepening economic crisis with inflation at more than 1,700 percent, unemployment of 80 percent and frequent shortages of food, fuel and foreign exchange.
		Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is in the hospital after being beaten and detained Sunday.
	cgi.cnn.com /2007/WORLD/africa/03/14/zimbabwe.court.reut/index.html (656 words)

	The Moving Planet Blog: Tsvangirai verdict imminent / media update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Is it Morgan Tsvangirai whom the regime have made a clumsy bid to frame on a charge of treason - or is it the Judge who has presided over the case, himself a representative of Robert Mugabe's new-style partisan judiciary, and who has benefited handsomely from Mugabe's patronage?
		The parallels between Morgan Tsvangirai's trial and the treason trial of Nelson Mandela in Rivonia in 1963-4 are indeed striking.
		Tsvangirai's commitment to peaceful change is remarkable enough in the context of Zimbabwe's recent history.
	planetmove.blogspot.com /2004/10/tsvangirai-verdict-imminent-media.html (789 words)

	Al Jazeera English - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Zimbabwe's high court has ordered police to allow lawyers access to Morgan Tsvangirai, the country's arrested opposition leader, whose lawyer said was in "bad shape" after being allegedly beaten by police.
		Tsvangirai is said to have been seriously beaten after being arrested as police broke up a banned prayer meeting, shooting one person dead.
		Tsvangirai and other opposition officials were arrested on Sunday after police blocked their motor convoy from driving to a stadium where a prayer vigil was due to be held.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/2E246B69-2EBC-46DA-BBAB-68D00FE0E715.htm (739 words)

	Carte Blanche
		MDC President, Morgan Tsvangirai: 'There is a general feeling now that Mugabe is a national liability, and I think it is a very serious transformation from one who was a hero of the people to one who has now turned out to be a villain.
		Morgan Tsvangirai: 'It’s become so frustrating to put all your maximum efforts to resolve some of the problems and, when you don’t make progress, you have to look at alternative ways of achieving those objectives.
		Morgan Tsvangirai: 'I won’t tell you race is no longer an issue, but what Mugabe has done is ignite racial hatred across ethnic and racial divides.
	www.carteblanche.co.za /Display/Display.asp?Id=1494 (1079 words)

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