Morgan Tsvangirai

Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 February 2009
President Robert Mugabe

Deputy Thokozani Khuphe
Arthur Mutambara

Preceded by Abolished last held by Robert Mugabe

President of the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai
Incumbent
Assumed office 31 March 2005
Preceded by Position established

President of the Movement for Democratic Change
In office31 September 1999 – 31 March 2005
Preceded by Gibson Sibanda

Succeeded by Position abolished

Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions
In office10 May 1987 – 31 September 1999
Preceded by Masotsha Ndhlovu

Succeeded by Wellington Chibebe

Born 10 March 1952 (age 57) Gutu, Southern Rhodesia

Political party Movement for Democratic Change (1999 – 2005)
Movement for Democratic Change–Tsvangirai (2005 – present)

Spouse(s) Susan Tsvangirai (1958 – 2009; deceased)

Residence Avondale, Zimbabwe

Profession Trade unionist

Religion Christianity

Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (English pronunciation: /Shona: [need tone] born 10 March 1952) is the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.[1] He is the President of the Movement for Democratic Change - Tsvangirai (MDC-T) and a key figure in the opposition to President Robert Mugabe. Tsvangirai was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe on 11 February 2009.[2] He sustained non-life threatening injuries in a car crash on 6 March 2009 when heading towards his rural home in Buhera. His wife, Susan Tsvangirai, was killed in the head-on collision accident.[3]
Tsvangirai was the MDC candidate in the controversial 2002 presidential election, losing to Mugabe. He later contested the first round of the 2008 presidential election as the MDC-T candidate, taking 47.8% of the vote according to official results, placing him ahead of Mugabe, who got 43.2%. Tsvangirai claimed to have won a majority and said that the results could have been altered in the month between the election and the reporting of official results.[4] Tsvangirai initially planned to run in the second round against Mugabe, but withdrew shortly before it was held, arguing that the election would not be free and fair due to widespread violence and intimidation by government supporters.