Movement for Democratic Change leader Arthur Mutambara stumbled in the first by-elections to test the strength of his faction which he claimed was the legitimate MDC when the rival Morgan Tsvangirai faction swept the Budiriro seat.
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Movement for Democratic Change leader Arthur Mutambara is a distant uncle of Eddison Zvobgo Junior according to Wikileaks and Zvobgo welcomed his entry into politics in 2006 saying Mutambara would stimulate needed debate on important issues.
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Solomon Mujuru was one of the most powerful people in Zimbabwe. He was reported to be one of the few Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leaders who could openly challenge President Robert Mugabe. He was even referred to as a kingmaker. Mujuru had also become one of the richest people in the country with businesses that spanned across the entire economy from mining to retail. But he died a painful death that remains shrouded in mystery. There are more than 90 cables on him. Here are the first 50.
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Former student leader Arthur Mutambara announced on 19 February 2006 that he was intending to run for the presidency of the pro-senate faction of the Movement for Democratic Change.
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We have now published more than 1300 Wikileaks cables on Zimbabwe alone. We are not yet half way but as we have stated before our aim is to publish all the Wikileaks cables that were released on Zimbabwe.
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Eddison Zvobgo Junior believed that President Robert Mugabe could step down and allow Vice-President Joice Mujuru to stand as president in 2008 provided she could protect him from prosecution but Mugabe’s former spin doctor Jonathan Moyo thought that he was not going to step down until 2010 but might change the constitution to create the post of Prime Minister for Mujuru.
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Retired general Solomon Mujuru wanted his wife Joyce to become President with Simba Makoni as Prime Minister if his group could push through the president/prime minister constitutional amendment in 2007 and win the 2008 elections, according to former journalist Sydney Masamvu.
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The former news editor of the Financial Gazette Nelson Banya said retired army general Solomon Mujuru and his wife vice-President Joyce Mujuru felt threatened by central bank governor Gideon Gono who owned the Financial Gazette because they saw him as a possible candidate in the post-Mugabe succession race.
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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai was so confident that his party would win the 2005 general elections that he ruled out entering into a government of national unity with the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front saying that would be “political suicide”.
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Moeletsi Mbeki, brother of former South African President Thabo Mbeki, told United States embassy officials that Joyce and Solomon Mujuru were not “Shona tribalists” like President Robert Mugabe or Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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