On this day in 2008, MDC representatives signed the South African-mediated power-sharing agreement in Harare. The agreement meant that the late former leader of the MDC Morgan Tsvangirai was to serve as prime minister for the chair council of Ministers, whereas the late former President Robert Mugabe was to chair the National Security Council (NSC).
On this day in 2008, police dispersed about 150 activists from the Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) and the Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) who were holding a demonstration in Harare using teargas. The demonstrators were calling for a resolution to the political crisis that had put Zimbabwe in a stall after the 2008 general elections and political negotiations which were failing at the time.