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Morgan Tsvangirai
Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, 2009 to 2013
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (; Shona pronunciation:[ts͎a.ᵑɡi.ra.i];[need tone] 10 March 1952 – 14 February 2018) was a Zimbabwean politician who was Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013.[1] He was president of the Movement for Democratic Change, and later the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC–T), and a key figure in the opposition to former president Robert Mugabe.
Tsvangirai was the MDC candidate in the controversial 2002 Zimbawean presidential election, losing to Mugabe. He later contested the first round of the 2008 Zimbawean presidential election as the MDC-T candidate, taking 47.8% of the vote according to official results, placing him ahead of Mugabe, who received 43.2%. Tsvangirai claimed to have won a majority and said that the results could have been altered in the month between the election and the reporting of official results.[2] Tsvangirai initially planned to run in the second round against Mugabe, but withdrew shortly before it was held, ar
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Morgan Tsvangirai
(b. Gutu, Zimbabwe, 10 March 1952)
Zimbabwean; Prime Minister 2009– , leader Movement for Democratic Change 1999– The oldest of nine children of a bricklayer father, Tsvangirai left school with little formal education in order to help support his family. He worked in a mine in his early twenties and rose to become plant foreman at Bindura nickel mine, while being active in the Associated Mineworkers' Union. In 1988 he was elected Secretary-General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trades Unions (ZCTU), an organization which was allied to Mugabe's ZANU-PF party.
In 1997 and 1998 Tsvangirai led strikes protesting against high taxes imposed by Mugabe's government, leading to a split between ZCTU and ZANU-PF, and in 1999 Tsvangirai formed the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). In spite of significant violence, MDC mounted a serious challenge to ZANU-PF in the parliamentary elections of 2000, taking 57 of 120 seats.
Prior to the 2002 presidential elections in which he planned to stand, Tsvangirai was accused of treason, having allegedly made threats to assassinate M
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Tsvangirai, Morgan
Morgan Tsvangirai (chän´gərī´), 1952–, Zimbabwean trade unionist and political leader. In the 1970s, while working in a nickel mine, he joined the Associated Mineworkers Union. Rising through the ranks, he was elected (1988) secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, and a decade later (1997–98) led a series of crippling strikes precipitated by high taxes. The strikes led the trade union congress to break with the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). Tsvangirai resigned (1999) his union post to help found the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), a political party opposed to President Robert Mugabe and the ZANU-PF.
As head of the MDC, Tsvangirai ran for president in 2002 and was defeated, many believe by fraud and intimidation. He also was charged with treason for an alleged assassination plot against Mugabe; he was acquitted, charged with treason again (2003), kept in virtual house arrest, and again acquitted (2004). The MDC split in 2005, and Tsvangirai headed its large
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