Posts by Charles Rukuni

At least seven United States citizens were likely to lose their properties under the government’s land reform programme according to a cable released by Wikileaks.

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South African President Thabo Mbeki who was the principal mediator in the Zimbabwe crisis forced the Movement for Democratic Change factions into agreeing to constitutional amendment number 18 to pave the way for the 2008 harmonised elections because he wanted an election that could not be disputed.

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Movement for Democratic Change vice-President Thokozani Khupe brought laughter to the house at a time when tensions between the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the MDC were quite high when she said Zimbabwean families were divided between ZANU-PF and the MDC, between ZANU-PF and ZAU-PF, and between the MDC and the MDC.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front wanted elections by March to take advantage of the divided opposition according to the secretary-general of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Welshman Ncube.

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African Consolidated Resources which was declared the legal owner of the Marange diamonds before the decision was rescinded by the same judge a year later said it was still holding back on its legal case hoping that something beneficial might materialise.

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The secretary-general of the Morgan Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, Tendai Biti, who was regarded as Tsvangirai’s de facto number two, told United States embassy officials that his party had no chance of winning the 2008 elections because it did not have any money to campaign.

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Publisher Trevor Ncube said the secretary-general of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Welshman Ncube, who is now the leader, was extremely bright but he was not a politician.

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Midlands Province was described as a model in land reform because black and white farmers were working together and provincial governor Cephas Msipa had convinced the government not to compulsorily take over white-owned dairy farms because this would lead to milk shortages.

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The secretary-general of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Welshman Ncube told United States embassy officials that pressure on President Robert Mugabe from the United States and the European Union was working but Mugabe preferred that any solution for the Zimbabwe crisis should come from Africa so that he could say he had stood up to the West and Africans had helped him to solve Zimbabwe’s problems.

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Francis Nhema was described by the United States embassy as a failed banker when he was appointed Minister of Environment and Tourism in 2000 and had probably landed the post because he was the son-in-law of Vice-President Joshua Nkomo.

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