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Revision as of 20:44, 11 June 2007 by Perspicacite (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Welshman Ncube (born July 7, 1961) is a leading member of Movement for Democratic Change, a Zimbabwean political party. He has been a member of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe for Bulawayo North East since the 2000 elections. Ncube is an academic lawyer who has been Professor of Law at the University of Zimbabwe from 1992 and Secretary-General of the MDC from 1999.
He has a BL (Bachelor of Law) LLB (Bachelor of Laws) and an MPhil (Law) degrees from the University of Zimbabwe. His MPhil thesis was on Zimbabwean Customary Law focusing on Family Law.
In 2002 Ncube was one three MDC MPs to be charged with high treason over an alleged plot to assassinate Robert Mugabe, but like the others was found not guilty. Within the MDC, rumors were circulated that Ncube was in some way connected to the decision by the Zimbabwean government to start the prosecution in order to destabilize the leadership of Morgan Tsvangirai. However Ncube was strongly attacked by media outlets close to the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front party in 2004.
Ncube was part of the faction in the MDC under Gibson Sibanda which supported participation in the first elections in 2005 for the Senate of Zimbabwe. After the MDC National Council voted narrowly to take part in the elections, MDC leader Tsvangirai expelled the selected candidates from the party and suspended Ncube pending disciplinary hearings at the MDC congress in February 2006. A recent press release from the MDC states "CIO in the thick of things as Welshman camp is reported to have been bought off with a mere 20 Billion Zimbabwe kwachas..."
In 1997 Ncube bought 30 square kilometres of land with the intention of developing it as a farm. The land had not previously been farmed and was subsequently discovered to have been seized from ZAPU supporters in 1982. Ncube was accused in 2006 of having profited from the Zimbabwe government's land transfer program. Ncube's group met in congress in Bulawayo and appointed Arthur Mutambara as its new President.
References
- Zimbabwe: MDC Unity Talks Break Down, June 6, 2007. AllAfrica
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