Posts by Charles Rukuni

Tourism and Hospitality Minister Walter Mzembi promised to set up an emergency tourism revival fund when he assumed office in 2009.

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Masvingo legislator and Deputy Minister of Water Walter Mzembi said he admired the Movement for Democratic Change for its battles against the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.

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The United States said the Global Political Agreement which was signed by Zimbabwe’s three major political parties had plenty of holes including no division of ministries, the possibility that Mugabe would retain control over the police and security services, and no mention of amnesty or transitional justice.

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The United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank unveiled their Comprehensive Economic Recovery in Zimbabwe document two weeks after the signing of the Global Political Agreement.

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United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer told Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheik Gadio that she thought President Robert Mugabe was reneging on the Global Political Agreement that he had entered into with the two leaders of the Movement for Democratic Change.

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One of the Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s lawyers Innocent Chagonda said Tsvangirai signed the Global Political Agreement with President Robert Mugabe of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the smaller faction of the MDC led by Arthur Mutambara without the approval of the party’s national council.

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Minister of Water Samuel Sipepa Nkomo said while most of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front cabinet members were difficult to deal with, Environment Minister Francis Nhema and Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi were moderates whom the Movement for Democratic Change could work with.

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Masvingo legislator Walter Mzembi was said to be one of the ministers from the Emmerson Mnangagwa faction of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front when he was appointed to the inclusive government cabinet.

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Though often touted as one of the reformists within the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Walter Mzembi was elevated from a deputy minister to Minister of Tourism and Hospitality in the inclusive government.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Member of Parliament for Chivi South Irvine Dzingirai told United States embassy officials that he had closer ties to the Movement for Democratic Change side of Parliament than to the ZANU-PF side.

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