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Morgan Tsvangirai Case Study
Tsvangirai: When Misfortune Forces Lords to Appreciate the Servants
Some years ago, the thought of the opposition leader of the Zimbabwean MDC-T party, Morgan Tsvangirai invoked fear, respect, invincibility…. and indeed, hopes for a new Zimbabwe. He was the epitome of a fresh start from a 34year old uninterrupted and often controversial rule of the ZANU-PF under the iron fist of 90 year old President Robert Gabriel Mugabe.
Morgan Tsvangirai was, indeed, the untouchable darling and the anointed choice of some Western governments, to succeed President Mugabe, whose audacious and nonchalant attitude, the West have grown frustratingly used to and increasingly tired of. While the West accuses the president of running the affairs of Zimbabwe like
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With reports that the MDC-T party is in a financial anemia, which has resulted in laying off of many faithful party workers, Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC-T party cannot afford to displease their loyal servants who have wholeheartedly sacrificed their lives and votes for the sake of the party. Perhaps, Morgan Tsvangirai never deeply appreciated the commitments of those faithful servants, but now that circumstances have forced him to experience their daily hardship, Morgan Tsvangirai is faced with a huge responsibility. He will not only be struggling desperately to pay his bills, airtime, groceries and those daily expenses, what the former Prime Minister took for granted during the good old days, which many Zimbabweans battle desperately to meet. Morgan Tsvangirai will equally try to convince the masses of his party constituency that having experienced their daily economic woes, he is now a better person and well suited to understand their predicament and deliver accordingly. It is a plead no one is sure an average Zimbabwean will honor, having in mind that once bitten, twice

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