Edgar Tekere

Edgar Z. Tekere (born 1937) is a Zimbabwean politician. He was Manpower Planning Minister from 1980 in Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's Cabinet. He was charged with murdering a white farmer, Gerald Adams, on August 4, 1980. He went on trial together with 7 bodyguards who were all former guerillas in Salisbury, Zimbabwe (as the area later became Zimbabwe). The court found him guilty of murder, but said that he was preventing terrorism so he was set free.

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1937 - Zimbabwean - Politician - 1980 - Robert Mugabe's - August 4

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After splitting with Mugabe, Tekere ran against him in the 1990 Presidential race as the candidate of the Zimbabwe Unity Movement, offering a broadly free market platform against Mugabe's communist-style economic planning. Mugabe won the election on April 1, 1990 receiving 2,026,976 votes while Tekere only got 413,840 (16% of the vote).

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April 1 - 1990

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