Posts by Charles Rukuni

The 2005 parliamentary elections were peaceful because the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front had become a minority party so its supporters did not want to risk provocations.

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The United States embassy in Harare was so disappointed with the March 2005 elections that it recommended that Oppah Muchinguri’s ex-husband Tapiwa Rushesha should be added to the financial sanctions list together with her two daughters, Tanya and Natasha.

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The United States embassy in Harare recommended that Women’s Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri’s two daughters, Tanya and Natasha, should be added the US sanctions list.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Emmerson Mnangagwa was a spent force and if the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front lost the elections, President Robert Mugabe would be asked to step down.

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This is a question one could be asking now as the country debates when and whether to hold its next elections. But this was asked by the United States embassy seven years ago as the country prepared for the 2005 parliamentary elections.

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The United States funded the supposedly independent radio station SW Radio which broadcasts from London according to a cable released by Wikileaks but it does not disclose how much the station got.

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Movement for Democratic Change campaign coordinator Ian Makone told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell that the party could win as many as 85 of the 120 elected seats in the 2005 elections.

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Former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano told the West that he supported the government of Zimbabwe because democracy forced from outside would fail while that developed from within would prevail.

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Former Manicaland governor Oppah Muchinguri was reported to be part of a group that went to politburo member Didymus Mutasa to urge that Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa be “rubbed out”.

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Talks between the Movement for Democratic Change and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front broke down in 2004 because of divisions within the MDC which left ZANU-PF with no one to negotiate with.

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