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Name Tendai Biti Tendai Biti
Surname Biti
First Names Tendai
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Title Hon
Country of Birth Zimbabwe
Positions
From To Organisation Position
2007   MDC- National Committee Executive Secretary General
2005 2008   MP for Harare East
2002   National Standing Committee Member
2000   Movement for Democratic Change Secretary General
2000   MDC- National Policy Council Secretary for Finance and Economics
1988 1989 Zimbabwe National Students Union Prominent Member
1985 1988 University of Zimbabwe LLB (Exact Dates unknown)
Date of Birth 6 Aug 1966
Political Affiliation MDC
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Notes Tendai Biti's profile:
Tendai is the Secretary-General of the MDC and was elected to that post on the party’s Congress held in March 2006.
He attended Goromonzi High School and the local University of Zimbabwe, where he graduated from the Law School. At the University of Zimbabwe he was a student leader and led the famous 1987 &1988 anti-government and anti- corruption protests that formed the basis and nucleus of the present day student movement.
Biti was first elected Member of Parliament for Harare East in 2000 and was re-elected in 2005. In his political life Biti has suffered persecution from the regime. He has been arrested and tortured by the country’s police and notorious state agents on numerous occasions. Most recently in March 2007 he was arrested and brutally tortured alongside MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai, other political and civic leaders for leading a public meeting in defiance of a government ban of all political gatherings in Zimbabwe.
[ Retrieved on 03 APR 2008 - http://www.mdc.co.zw/commitee-;tendaibiti.asp ]
Record last updated on 07 APR 2008