Biti said Mufamadi hit the roof after reviewing ZANU-PF paper on talks

The secretary general of the Morgan Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Tendai Biti told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell that South African mediation team leader Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi “hit through the roof” after reviewing the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s position paper on negotiations with the MDC.

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The Sikhanyiso Ndlovu Wikileaks cables

Sikhanyiso Ndlovu was a popular educationist running his own Zimbabwe Distance Education Colleges until he decided to go into politics as the Member of Parliament for Mpopoma. But his career was short-lived because he lost his seat in 2000 to little known Milton Gwetu of the Movement for Democratic Change. The people of Mpopoma loved him but they told him he had to leave ZANU-PF if he wanted them to vote for him. He couldn’t. From then on he survived at the mercy of President Robert Mugabe. He did that for the next eight years until he was fired with most of the other losers in January 2009. There were 18 cables on him and here they are:

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Ndlovu axed

Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu was one of the nine ministers from the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front that President Robert Mugabe axed as he prepared for the setting up of an inclusive government.

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Masamvu passed MDC document to US officials

Idasa analyst Sydney Masamvu had a copy of the 10-page document on the concerns of the two Movement for Democratic Change formations sent to South African President Thabo Mbeki and handed it over to United States embassy officials in Pretoria who in turn emailed it to their embassy in Harare.

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Masamvu double-cross

Pretoria was so desperate to get analytical information on Zimbabwe that Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad asked Idasa analyst Sydney Masamvu to give him a five-page analysis about the situation in Zimbabwe in 10 days.

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Wedding of the year

South African President Jacob Zuma’s daughter Gugulethu married Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Welshman Ncube’s son Bongani in Bulawayo on December 27 in what Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu dubbed “the wedding of the year”.

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