The battle for Kondozi Farm is reported to have pitted Minister of Agriculture Joseph Made and the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority against a partnership of black and white Zimbabweans reportedly aligned with Vice President Joseph Msika and a host of local chiefs.
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Though the responsibility of lands had been removed from Agriculture Minister Joseph Made and handed over to John Nkomo, evictions resumed at a faster pace under Nkomo who had been hailed as a moderate.
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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai asked for food assistance from the United States, though Agriculture Minister Joseph Made had predicted that Zimbabwe would have enough food.
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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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The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front was reported to have launched “Operation Red Finger” to force people to go and vote in the presidential elections runoff of 27 June 2008 from which the Movement for Democratic Change had pulled out because of violence.
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Former Finance Minister Simba Makoni said the removal of the responsibility for lands from Minister of Agriculture Joseph Made was a positive step because John Nkomo was a much more reliable and moderate person.
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The president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries Anthony Mandiwanza was happy that the land portfolio had been removed from hardliner Joseph Made who now remained Minister of Agriculture and Rural Resettlement and given over to moderate John Nkomo.
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Lands and Agriculture Minister Joseph Made scored a major victory when the Land Acquisition Amendment Act was passed in Parliament legalising all the farms he had compulsorily acquired.
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