Morgan Tsvangirai British Puppet?

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Morgan Tsvangirai is the president of the Movement for Democratic Change [MDC] Zimbabwe's most credible opposition party that beat Zimbabwe President's Robert Mugabe at the March 29 2008 Presidential and Parliamentary Polls.

Tsvangirai as he is commonly known in the capital of Zimbabwe Harare and the streets of other cities in Zimbabwe is also the Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe.  He is the founding president of the MDC a party that was born out of Zimbabwe's fierce labor movement in the 90s. Since 2001 Tsvangirai's party has presented stiff political competition to the incumbent Mugabe at almost each and every election. 

Robert Mugabe and his party ZANU PF have long considered Tsvangirai a puppet of the west especially the British government. In turn Morgan Tsvangirai and his party the MDC have fearlessly accused Zimbabwe's President Mugabe of ruining Zimbabwe's economy and running down the Zimbabwe currency through unstoppable money printing at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.

In the eyes of many observers both political leaders have made costly mistakes yet in all this Mugabe's mistakes have been more grievous than any of his political antagonists. Tsvangirai has appeared to align himself with western governments a loophole fully exploited by Mugabe's party to try and discredit him at home and in Africa.( Picture - Tsvangirai and late wife Susan Tsvangirai)

On his part, Mugabe is blamed by the opposition for an ill-thought out and violent land reform programme in 2001 that plunged the people of Zimbabwe into an abyss of hunger and abject poverty especially for those working on the farms.

Born on 10 March 1952, Morgan Tsvangirai has over the years matured into a fearless and hard to crack opposition leader. This can be said to be a direct outcome of the history of Zimbabwe in general and his own experience at the hands of the Mugabe regime for nearly 10 horrifying years.

Perhaps the lowest point of his struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe came on 6 March 2009 when he lost his wife Susan Tsvangirai (pictured above) in a serious automobile accident on the Harare Masvingo road in Zimbabwe. There were early suspicions of foul play but Tsvangirai even though injured and in pain was quick to dispel the rumors and rather accept the loss of his wife as an accident.

Unlike his counter-part from the opposition Professor Arthur Mutambara in the inclusive government created in early 2009, Tsvangirai resembles more mature statesmanship. Business and civil society and the society in general in Zimbabwe and internationally have demonstrated outspoken respect for  Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai was nominated Noble Peace Prize laureate for 2009 which was subsequently awarded to Barack Obama (seen with Tsvangirai at the State House below).

Even under the inclusive government, Tsvangirai has remained an object of attack and biased criticism by the ZANU PF controlled newspaper Zimbabwe Herald.

He is amongst few African leaders who have found favor with Washington even having an opportunity to meet with Barack Obama and Secretary Hillary Clinton in mid 2009.

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