The World - News from May 1, 1989
A founder of Zimbabwe’s ruling party launched a new opposition political movement with the avowed aim of preventing a dictatorship. Edgar Tekere, 52, chairman of the new Zimbabwe Unity Movement, told a news conference the current leadership is “decayed.” He vowed to challenge President Robert Mugabe in the next elections, which are due before April, 1990. Tekere, who helped Mugabe establish the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union party in 1963, was fired from his party posts in October after lashing out at high-level corruption.
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