The South Africa newspaper Cape Argus reports that a new leader has emerged in a political faction opposed to the government of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe: “rocket scientist” Arthur Mutambara, who the paper describes as “a professor in robotics and mechatronics who has worked for the US space agency, Nasa”. (See his resume) From the article, though, it appears that Mutambara first has to win over rivals within the opposition before he can think about taking down Mugabe.
The rocket scientist is the greatest hope Zimbabwe has at the moment. Bothe the government and MDC the opposition are caught up in reactionary politics where they oppose anything and everything the other party says. Arthur Mutambara is offering a center position that will appeal to Zimbabwean, like myself, fed-up with extremists.
Checkout an article I wrote on the issue on my blog above.