Posts by Charles Rukuni

The Daily News said President George Bush should put pressure on South African President Thabo Mbeki to stop covering for President Robert Mugabe.

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President Robert Mugabe was an old man who refused to open his eyes to the reality of his country because politically and economically he was bereft of ideas to rescue it from certain disaster.

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United States secretary of State Colin Powell came under fire for writing an op-ed column in the New York Times critical of President Robert Mugabe.

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The editor of the Daily News, Nqobile Nyathi, was arrested, charged and released on 26 June 2003 for publishing adverts insulting President Robert Mugabe.

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Eddison Zvobgo was one of the most powerful politicians in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. That was until he began to challenge corruption within the party, and the fact that President Robert Mugabe had overstayed. He was also one of the party’s chief legal draftsmen and is reported to have regretted creating the executive presidency. He had fallen out with Mugabe when he died but remained within the party till his death. There are 49 cables on him. Here they are:

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United States President George Bush’s visit to Africa in 2003 was viewed as an African safari with a regime change agenda in mind, namely mobilising African leaders to isolate Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.

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There was more trouble for Information Minister Jonathan Moyo when the party decided that it would reserve a third of the seats in the 2005 parliamentary elections for women and his Tsholotsho seat was one of those that was going to be affected.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti is always complaining that the country has no money. Reports say the 2012 budget is off the rails because the government is not going to get the diamond revenue it expected. Yet, the government has just thrown $45 million down the drain by drafting a constitution that will definitely be rejected by the people.

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Masvingo Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front supremo Eddison Zvobgo told United States embassy officials that he and a group of dissatisfied party cadres were working to force President Robert Mugabe out.

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Former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front politburo member Eddison Zvobgo, who had fallen out with President Robert Mugabe, told United States embassy officials that Mugabe’s new cabinet, which saw Finance Minister Simba Makoni being kicked, out was rotten to the core.

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