Many Zimbabweans have welcomed the judgment handed by Justice Bharat Patel on the 9^th of March 2010, in the case involving Jonathan Moyo and the Speaker of Parliament, Hon Lovemore Moyo, where he upheld the election of the Speaker in August 2008.

Although most people knew that there was no case, we still salute and hail the judge for giving his honest opinion in the wake of the highly poisoned political environment. Jonathan Moyo sought to gain political mileage and revive his dead political career using the courts of law.

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“We understand that Zanu PF were the authors of these restrictions (sanctions) and we expect the international community to review them in line with democratic progress and reforms within Zimbabwe” - Tsvangirai briefing diplomats on sanctions and the deadlock at Harvest House yesterday. 

The Minister of Regional Integration and International Cooperation, Priscilla Misiharambwi-Mushonga, of the splinter Movement for Democratic Change has confirmed her party's position that they do not want an election anytime soon.

Neither she, nor the other three Ministers from her party won their Parliamentary seats, so an early election would be disastrous for them, observed our correspondent who attended the meeting she addressed in Cape Town.

National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) chairman, Dr. Lovemore Madhuku, has refused to stop supporting a group of students and former students who were ousted from the leadership of the tertiary students' movement, but who continue calling themselves Zimbabwe National Students Union - thus causing confusion, and now violent clashes among students.

Dr Madhuku still supporting the splinter ZINASU which claims legitimacy just because it held a "congress"