Posts by Charles Rukuni

More than 90 percent of the clients of one of the owners of a conservancy farms in the Save Valley were American hunters.

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Although several diplomats were stressing the need for Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai to return to the country before the presidential elections run-off of 2008, some had started questioning his ability to deliver.

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The superb showing by the Morgan Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change in both the parliamentary and presidential elections of 2008, which saw the party pip the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front in the lower House for the first time in 28 years and Tsvangirai beat Robert Mugabe though failing to win an outright victory, led to wide speculation that the MDC-T had teamed up with its junior partner to save MDC- Mutambara bigwigs who had been clobbered in Bulawayo by MDC-T candidates.

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Former Ghanaian President John Atta Mills said Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai was not a viable alternative to Robert Mugabe.

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Violence escalated in the run-up to the presidential elections run-off with shocking reports of targetted violence directed against opposition members and suspected opposition supporters but no United States citizens were involved.

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Political analyst Sydney Masamvu said prior to the presidential election run-off of 2008 that President Robert Mugabe’s campaign would be run by the military, not party officials.

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Ambassadors from the Southern African Development Community told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee that Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai needed to defend the victory that he claimed in the 2008 elections.

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Environment and Tourism Minister Francis Nhema approved a Public Private Community Partnership Trust seven years ago to tap private conservancies and access capital and international connections to finance tourism concessions in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park.

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A United States embassy official had to spend two days at Hammond Ranch in the Save Valley Conservancy area after the owner, George Hulme, a United States citizen, said his farm was under threat.

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The manager of the Save Valley Conservancy, the largest private conservancy in Zimbabwe, went to lengths to dispel the government’s impression that Save Valley was a cash cow eight years ago.

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