Britain was considering adding state prosecutor Florence Ziyambi on the European Union sanctions list because she appeared to be the favourite for prosecuting high profile political cases.
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Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete said he and Botswana President Ian Khama advised Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai to join the new government because people would see the MDC as refusing to take a role in the government while the country deteriorated.
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Herbert Murerwa has been one of the longest serving members of President Robert Mugabe’s government. He has served as a civil servant, then as a diplomat and finally as a minister. The Harvard-educated Murerwa, who has been Minister of Finance more than once, has been variously described as decent but ineffective and “too much of a gentleman”. There are 53 Wikileaks cables on him. Here they are.
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Zimbabwe has been ranked as one of the four countries in Africa with the highest cases of fraud, according to the findings of the second Africa Fraud Barometer released by KPMG.
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Lands Minister Herbert Murerwa had his sights set on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and would have preferred any other ministry besides Lands, according to commercial farmer Doug Taylor-Freeme.
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President Robert Mugabe is reported to have sidelined the main rivals in his succession battle Solomon Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa giving the two camps only six of the 22 ministerial posts he had squeezed from the inclusive government.
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Herbert Murerwa, one of the senior Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front officials to retain his seat in the 2008 elections, was appointed Minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement when the inclusive government was sworn in in February 2009.
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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell said after the February 2007 cabinet reshuffle, central bank governor Gideon Gono was increasingly acting as the de facto Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
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The International Monetary Fund mission chief Sharmini Coorey said that the governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Gideon Gono was the worst banker in the world by far.
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The Prime Minister and Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai has fought for democracy in Zimbabwe since he became secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions in the 1980s. It was in that role that he was catapulted to the MDC. He has the highest number of Wikileaks cables released on Zimbabwe, more than 800. But whether it was for better or worse, only the public can decide. Here are the first 609. We have 200 more to go and will publish them all before we move on to complete those on President Robert Mugabe who has the second highest. The cables might be boring to some now but we feel we need to publish them, not to embarrass Tsvangirai because we do not even believe their accuracy. We are publishing them because this is what shaped US policy on Zimbabwe.
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