Welshman Ncube

Welshman Ncube (born July 7, 1961) is a leading member of a faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, a Zimbabwe political party. He has been a member of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe for Bulawayo North East since the 2000 elections. Ncube is an academic lawyer who has been Professor of Law at the University of Zimbabwe from 1992 and Secretary-General of the MDC from 1999.

He has a BL (Bachelor of Law) LLB (Bachelor of Laws) and an MPhil (Law) degrees from the University of Zimbabwe. His MPhil thesis was on Zimbabwean Customary Law focusing on Family Law.

In 1997 Ncube bought 30 square kilometres of land with the intention of developing it as a farm. The land had not previously been farmed and was subsequently discovered to have been seized from ZAPU supporters in 1982. Ncube was accused in 2006 of having profited from the Zimbabwe government's land transfer program.[2] Ncube's group met in congress in Bulawayo and appointed Arthur Mutambara as its new President.

In 2002 Ncube was one three MDC MPs to be charged with high treason over an alleged plot to assassinate Robert Mugabe, but like the others was found not guilty.

Ncube was part of the faction in the MDC under Gibson Sibanda which supported participation in the first elections in 2005 for the Senate of Zimbabwe. This faction is the smaller of the two. The MDC National Council voted to take part in the elections, MDC leader Tsvangirai tried to expel the selected candidates from the party and suspended Ncube pending disciplinary hearings at the MDC congress in February 2006, but failed because he could not do so constituionally.

On June 16, 2007 Ncube and Tendai Biti met with Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Labor Minister Nicholas Goche, in Pretoria, South Africa on June 16, 2007. South African President Thabo Mbeki, appointed by the Southern African Development Community, presided over the negotiations which seek to end economic sanctions on Zimbabwe.