Morgan Tsvangirai Biography

Morgan Tsvangirai is the former prime minister of Zimbabwe. He has brought international attention to the ongoing dictatorship in his home country. In his early career he proved to be an extremely hard worker and worked in a nickel mine for over a decade. He quickly gained recognition and rose in the ranks of the Mine Workers Union eventually becoming secretary-general. Over the years his political opposition to the current administration grew stronger. After failing at an attempt to create a new constitution to dethrone President Robert Mugabe he formed a new political party. This group became the strongest opposition in the country’s history. He made attempts to run against him in a valid election but Mugabe’s administration responded with intimidation, threats, and even arrest. As a result, Tsvangirai was arrested three times for treason against his government. Though all the charges were eventually dropped, he made little success in chipping away at the dictator’s power. He succeeded in creating a power-sharing government in which he was named prime minister. Though he was never able to defeat Mugabe in any election he has made the government’s abuse of power an international issue. The rest of the world has begun to put pressure on Mugabe to step down and cease his obvious human right abuses