People's Democratic Party (Zimbabwe) People's Democratic Party (Zimbabwe) The People's Democratic Party (PDP) is a political party in Zimbabwe. It was launched in September 2015 after a faction broke away from the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai. At their breakaway in 2014 they initially called themselves Movement for Democratic Change – Renewal. The president of the party was Tendai Biti, a former minister of finance of Zimbabwe serving in the Morgan Tsvangirai government 2009–2013. He was replaced as leader by Lucia Matibenga in an interim capacity in September 2017 after being expelled from the party for joining the MDC Alliance. This party is
Isaac Matongo wife and fellow MDC colleague Evelyn Masaiti, the MP for Mutasa from 2000 to 2005, and their eight children. Isaac Matongo Isaac Matongo (12 March 1947 – 2 May 2007) was a Zimbabwean politician and labor activist, born in Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia. Matongo was elected vice-president of the National Engineering Workers' Union in 1988, eventually serving in the same position with the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions. He was the founding chairman of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which is now the main opposition to the ZANU-PF party led by Robert Mugabe. He was critical of Mugabe for