Posts by Charles Rukuni

We now have 800 Wikileaks cables on one page, though we have published over 900. Here is the line-up. To read more cables use our index where cables are indexed by name.

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Former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, who ran the government’s propaganda machine from 2000 to 2005 when he was expelled from the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, was back in familiar territory as he blasted the Movement for Democratic Change and sought to be readmitted to ZANU-PF.

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Former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo attacked Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai for arranging a trip to the United States saying the trip was a personal disaster and a complete waste of time.

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Gideon Gono was at one time the de facto Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. He had become so powerful that he sent shivers through many original founders of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. But he is now a pale shadow of his former self. There are 290 cables on Gono, making him third with the highest number of cables after Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe. Here are the first 100.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono who had managed to bring down inflation considerably in his first year as governor admitted in January 2006 that he was losing the battle against inflation and had been warned by high-level government officials that he would be fired if inflation hit four digits.

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The head of consumer banking at Standard Chartered Ralph Watungwa said parastatals were a bottomless barrel so the announcement by central bank governor Gideon Gono that he would require them to hold their foreign currency with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe would not rein them in even if the RBZ could dip into those accounts to address other priorities such as paying the International Monetary Fund.

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The Insider today made a major breakthrough when our book- How to buy a house for half the price was featured on Metro FM, one of the national radio stations in South Africa.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono stunned the International Monetary Fund and the United States government when he paid US$120 million on 29 August 2005 towards the country’s IMF debt, leaving both wondering where he had got the money.

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Caltex was breaking even at the height of fuel shortages in Zimbabwe with just 12 service stations throughout the country and through direct imports on behalf of clients like companies and embassies, clearly demonstrating the effectiveness of market prices.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono went all out in July 2005 to stop Zimbabwe’s expulsion from the International Monetary Fund saying this would be disastrous for the country.

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