New man at the helm of MDC faction

Opposiyion to the Zimbabwean president has been given a new lifeline in the form of an ex patriot professor Arthur Mutambara, 39. He has been elected leader of a faction of the MDC that hopes to challenge the ruling party in the upcomming senate elections. There is some controversy over who will keep the party’s name and how the exsisting funds are to be spit

A ZIMBABWEAN rocket scientist has swept back into his country after 15 years abroad and launched himself as a radical opposition leader, vowing to bring down President Robert Mugabe and end the misrule that has left millions on the edge of starvation.
“We can’t expect the outside world to bring about change,” said Arthur Mutambara, 39, in his first newspaper interview since being named leader of a breakaway faction of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

“As a Zimbabwean, I’ve had enough of seeing my fellow citizens suffering. The game’s up. I’m going to remove Robert Mugabe, I promise you, with every tool at my disposal.”

Zimbabweans have been astonished by the sudden arrival on the political scene of one of the country’s most eminent expatriate academics. His last involvement in politics was in leading the first student protests against Mugabe in 1989. Since then he has completed a doctorate in robotics and mechatronics at Merton College, Oxford, and worked on the American space programme. He has been a professor of robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other American universities and a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.

He recently moved to South Africa, from…

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