Topic: Tendai Biti
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We attended to protect the fundamental (integrity) of our parliament, and to show that we now control the parliament
Mugabe foes disrupt parliament speech Aug 26, 2008
It is almost as if the regime is sending out a message to the region, to the international community that it doesn't care, that it has no respect for life, it has no respect for the rule of law
Tsvangirai detained again on way to rally Jun 06, 2008
There's a wall of riot police so you can't actually see what's happening
Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai arrested again Mar 28, 2007
There was a time when for 15 minutes they were assaulting him with their baton sticks non-stop. He must have passed out at least three times
Beaten Zimbabwe politician hospitalized Mar 14, 2007
These new camps are simply meant to ensure the further militarization of elections in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe to increase controversial camps Nov 13, 2004
Tendai Laxton Biti (born 6 August 1966) is a Zimbabwean politician. He is the Secretary-General of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-Tsvangirai) political party and a member of Parliament for Harare East; currently he is the Minister of Finance of Zimbabwe.
Biti was born in Dzivarasekwa, Harare. From 1980 to 1985 he attended Goromonzi High School, where he was appointed deputy head boy in 1985. He enrolled in the University of Zimbabwe law school as a freshman in 1986. In 1988 and 1989, as Secretary General of the Student Union, Biti led student protests against government censorship in academia. After school, he joined the Law firm Honey and Blackenberg, where he became the youngest partner by the age of 26.
In 1999 he helped found the MDC. He was elected Member of Parliament for the Harare East constituency in 2000. During the Fifth Parliament he served as a member of the Parliament Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water Development, Rural Resources and Resettlement and that on Defence and Home Affairs. In March 2005 he retained the constituency. He serves in the Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development and is currently the MDC's Secretary General. In his legal career Biti has handled labour and human rights litigation representing large trade unions such as the Post and Telecommunications Trade Union.
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