The Commercial Farmers Union felt that a merger with the Indigenous Commercial Farmers Union was the only way to save the remaining 500 to 600 white-owned farms, but Agriculture Minister Joseph Made stood in the way.
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The suspension of Zimbabwe from the Commonwealth must serve to remind President Robert Mugabe that the rest of the world is watching his every move and will pounce on him if he continues to stray from the straight and narrow path of good governance.
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Emmerson Mnangagwa told a visiting United States delegation when he was Speaker of Parliament and Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front secretary for administration that the Movement for Democratic Change started the violence to which ZANU-PF youths responded “in kind”.
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Emmerson Mnangagwa might have asked President Robert Mugabe to amend the Electoral Act after complaints from United States assistant secretary for African Affairs Walter Kansteiner to save his two children who were studying in the United States.
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Emmerson Mnangagwa and others in President Robert Mugabe’s inner circle would leave the government if they were offered an acceptable exit package.
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Former Speaker of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa refused to be pinned down on whether Zimbabwe would allow United States election observers for the 2002 presidential elections saying he did not know how the government felt since he was no longer a member of the cabinet.
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Movement for Democratic Change shadow Minister for Finance Tapiwa Mashakada was suspended with three other legislators pending an investigation into his role in factional disputes that had been simmering for almost a month.
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The Movement for Democratic Change’s shadow Minister for Economic Affairs Tendai Biti and the shadow Minister for Finance Tapiwa Mashakada were reported to be emerging as rivals for the control of the party’s economic policy, according to the United States embassy.
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Eric Matinenga was a prominent lawyer before being appointed Minister of Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs. Interestingly he has represented people from the two different political divides- Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change and Leo Mugabe, a former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front legislator who is also President Robert Mugabe’s nephew. There are 26 Wikileaks cables on him. Here they are:
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