Posts by Charles Rukuni

Chamber of Mines chief executive officer David Murangari said mining companies could only stay in operation if they were allowed to retain more foreign exchange earnings.

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ExxonMobil, one of the largest oil companies in the world, urged Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa at the beginning of 2003 to ask the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe to stop subsidising fuel imports.

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Former Masvingo Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front boss Eddison Zvobgo said Solomon Mujuru, Simba Makoni and Shadreck Beta were among those who wanted President Robert Mugabe to resign.

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Zimbabwe’s industrialists called on the government to abandon its impractical economic policies at the beginning of 2003 but wondered whether President Robert Mugabe would listen.

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Zimbabwe talks mediator Thabo Mbeki wrote a 10-page letter to Prime Minister designate and Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai rebuking the MDC for lack of concern about the plight of Zimbabweans and excessive ties to the West.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader and Prime Minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai told French officials that he would only participate in a government of national unity if President Robert Mugabe agreed to real power-sharing and the political agreement was accompanied by legal and constitutional changes that would give the force of law to such an arrangement.

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The Zimbabwean government was reported to be furious that the South African government had allowed Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai to fly to Europe using an emergency travel document that was supposed to be valid for South Africa and Swaziland only.

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Prime Minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai refused to go along with the Southern African Development Community’s decision that his party share the Ministry of Home Affairs with President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front saying no deal was better than a bad deal.

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Botswana President Ian Khama said he believed that he was being isolated within the Southern African Development Community because of his outspokenness.

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Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa’s budget for 2003 was laden with inconsistencies and was likely to destroy its exporters, one of the only remaining sources of forex, the United States embassy said.

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