Posts by Charles Rukuni

South Africa’s assistant director in the Department of Foreign Affairs Eden Reid said Mavambo leader Simba Makoni’s presidential bid was premature.

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Political analyst Sydney Masamvu was one of 15 members of theInstitute for Democracy in South Africa staff that were to be sent to Zimbabwe to observe the 2008 elections.

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Oppah Muchinguri is one of the most powerful women in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. She was an aide to ZANLA commander Josiah Tongogara and survived the accident that killed him. Some people believe that Muchinguri is being rewarded for keeping quiet about how Tongogara really died just days before he was supposed to return to Zimbabwe with the rest of the ZANU-PF leaders and military. But even then she still remains a political power player within the party and the presidential succession battle. There are just over 20 Wikileaks cables on her. Here is the first batch.

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Women’s Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri was one of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front bigwigs that lost the 2008 elections literally marking the end of her political career.

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Publisher Trevor Ncube supported the presidential candidacy of Mavambo leader Simba Makoni in the 2008 elections and even received a telephone call from Makoni during a meeting with United States embassy officials in Pretoria.

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Econet boss Strive Masiyiwa told United States embassy officials in Pretoria that former army commander Solomon Mujuru was essentially a “mafia boss” and President Robert Mugabe could simply threaten to arrest him if he got out of line.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front central committee member Manatsa Mutasa told United States ambassador James McGee that he was so disgusted by corruption in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front that he was not campaigning for the party in the 2008 elections.

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Women’s Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri was named one of the senior Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leaders who supported former politburo member Simba Makoni to challenge President Robert Mugabe.

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The Prime Minister and Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai has fought for democracy in Zimbabwe since he became secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions in the 1980s. It was in that role that he was catapulted to the MDC. He has the highest number of Wikileaks cables released on Zimbabwe, more than 800. But whether it was for better or worse, only the public can decide. Here are the first 263.

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Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett said the “Makoni project”- the entry of former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front politburo member Simba Makoni into the presidential race- was more an attempt by some in ZANU-PF to seize the party from President Robert Mugabe.

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