Posts by Charles Rukuni

Former army commander Solomon Mujuru told Zimplats chief executive Greg Sebborn way back in 2005 that he was running the country on a day-to-day basis.

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China had embarked on a focused economic campaign to expand ties and secure natural resources throughout Africa but it had little interest in providing meaningful investment. It just wanted to secure resources and get out.

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Operation Murambatsvina in which thousands of Zimbabweans were left homeless had clearly demonstrated that the leadership of the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front would do whatever it needed to to stay in power.

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Zimbabwe’s business leaders pleaded with the United States not to let the International Monetary Fund expel Zimbabwe from the organisation saying this would be disastrous and would induce greater capital flight and accelerate the exodus of Zimbabwe’s best and brightest.

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Zimplats, Zimbabwe’s largest platinum miner, was prepared to invest as much as US$2 billion but it was worried about the coming of Chinese investors as they seemed to be getting better concessions from the government.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono lashed out at greedy “economic saboteurs” and indisciplined elements on whom he vowed the government would clamp down as it became apparent he had run out of options to turn around the economy.

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Movement for Democratic Change legislator David Coltart said the breakup of the MDC was fuelling strains in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front because with the threat from the MDC reduced there was less reason for ZANU-PF insiders to bury their differences.

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The United States embassy in Harare said one of the lessons that had to be learnt from the 2005 elections, which the Movement for Democratic Change had said it would win, was that no one should underestimate President Robert Mugabe, his wiliness and his willingness to go to any length to hold on to power.

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Former Finance Minister Simba Makoni told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell that the government was not the beginning and end of Zimbabwe so the United States should seek engagement with other potentially influential figures.

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The Ndebele people had worked so hard to rid themselves of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front politicians in Matebeleland so they did not want them back by default.

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