Posts by Charles Rukuni

The International Monetary Fund warned that Zimbabwe’s fragile economic recovery could be derailed by mismanagement at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.

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President Robert Mugabe’s: “So Blair, keep your England and let me keep my Zimbabwe,” speech at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, received mixed reaction from the country’s two leading dailies.

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The World Summit on Sustainable Development was going to be another useless talk shop as people like President Robert Mugabe were going to talk about eradicating poverty and disease and empowering their nations and protecting the country’s national resources yet back home he would be all out to crush opponents and all voices of democracy.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front newspaper, The People’s Voice, called it American madness. But it warned that no Western power was mighty enough to intimidate the heroic people of Zimbabwe.

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Pro-government papers hailed the World Summit for Sustainable Development in South Africa as the unique platform for President Robert Mugabe to set the record straight on the land issue.

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A group of African Americans who visited Zimbabwe in August 2002 came under fire from the Daily News which accused them of being used as a propaganda tool by President Robert Mugabe to demonstrate that his land reform programme had international support.

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We now have 1100 Wikileaks cables on Zimbabwe alone. As we have stated before our aim is to publish all the Wikileaks cables that were released on Zimbabwe. This does not in any way mean that we agree with what the cables say. Our primary aim is to demonstrate United States thinking on Zimbabwe. And once we have a complete database of all the cables, we will start investigating some of the things mentioned in the cables.

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Global Witness’ report on diamonds in Zimbabwe entitled: Diamonds: a good deal for Zimbabwe? leaves more unanswered questions about one of the major diamond miners in Marange, Anjin, than it provides answers.

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Zimbabwe was not a punch bag for bullies from the Western world who, while preaching democracy, had autocratic foreign policies. This was said by the Bulawayo daily, Chronicle, in an editorial in which the paper supported President Robert Mugabe’s threats to hit back at the Western nations by imposing sanctions on them as well.

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Zimbabwe had the second longest unbroken record as a multiparty democracy in Africa so it was surprised as to why the United States was complaining about the breakdown of the rule of law and human rights and lack of democracy.

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