The Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act was finally passed after three weeks if haggling between Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Parliamentary Legal Committee Chairman Eddison Zvobgo.
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Masvingo kingpin Eddison Zvobgo was convinced that President Robert Mugabe was going to lose the 2002 presidential elections because he was no longer listening to him or to anyone else.
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The United States already had it cut out for a Morgan Tsvangirai or Robert Mugabe victory in the 2002 presidential elections three months before the poll.
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Welshman Ncube was the second most powerful person within the Movement for Democratic Change when the party was formed in 1999. His political star, however, began to fade when he led a splinter group in 2005 that insisted that the party should contest the senate elections. A constitutional expert, Ncube may have been right in principle, but the move backfired. Though he allowed Arthur Mutambara to lead the party until he took over, the MDC that Ncube now leads only commands 10 seats in Parliament. It could even lose those seats to either his main rival Morgan Tsvangirai or the resuscitated Zimbabwe African People’s Union led by Dumiso Dabengwa. There are more than 200 Wikileaks cables on him. Here are the first 50.
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The presidents of South Africa, Nigeria and Malawi attempted to restart talks between the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change but both sides stuck to their original positions – Mugabe demanding that the MDC recognise his presidency, and the MDC refusing any preconditions to talks.
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Masvingo kingpin Eddison Zvobgo told United States embassy officials that Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai was “intense and passionate” but he was also “shallow and immature”.
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The United States embassy said it had no evidence that President Robert Mugabe was moving personal or state assets out of the country but instead he had built a multi-million dollar mansion which was an indication that he intended to stay for some time.
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The Norwegian company, Scandinavian Dermal Group, which has developed a range of beauty products using spermine which it is now selling on the open market, says it does not use human sperm.
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Masvingo Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front provincial supremo Eddison Zvobgo said he was not going to campaign for the party candidate in the Masvingo mayoral elections to show his disenchantment.
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Despite the emergency of the Movement for Democratic Change as a viable opposition with the potential to win elections and take over the government, the West and Zimbabweans have been obsessed with who is going to succeed President Robert Mugabe as if the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front is going to rule forever.
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