A confidante of President Robert Mugabe, Father Fidelis Mukonori, told United States embassy officials that Mugabe had decided not to sign the non-governmental orgnisations bill in its current form because he thought it was part of the Tsholotsho plot.
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Central bank governor Gideon Gono instructed his exchange control chief O.C. Masiiwa not to pursue high profile parallel market traders in the run up to the March 2005 elections because he feared that this could divide the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front because the traders were well-connected members of ZANU-PF.
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Sales of new and used truck by US company Tyco dropped by 90 percent from 1999 to 2004 the company’s general manager John Stuart said.
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The International Monetary Fund’s postponement of a decision on Zimbabwe’s compulsory withdrawal played into the hands of the Zimbabwean government because it was portrayed in the government-owned media as a vote of confidence in the country’s home-grown economic turnaround efforts.
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The Zimbabwe dollar depreciated by at least 20 percent to trade at between Z$10 500 and Z$11 000 to the greenback two weeks after central bank governor Gideon Gono’s monetary policy statement in which he had not adjusted the diaspora rate because he had literally told the private sector- “fend for yourselves”.
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Central bank governor Gideon Gono said on 27 January 2005 the fast track land reform programme was over and the government would have “zero tolerance for disruptive activities on land”.
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A Zimbabwean company which had furnished 1 300 rooms for Disney’s Animal Kingdom said it had been offered another job to furnish 1 600 hotel rooms but it might have to pass the job because it could not do it at the current exchange rate.
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President Robert Mugabe was not happy with the non-governmental organisations bill and wanted to send it back to Parliament but he could not do so because of the heavy criticism the bill had received from the United States government.
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We now have 750 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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The United States embassy in Harare said the death of Information Minister Tichaona Jokonya on 21 June 2006 literally and symbolically reinforced the message that ZANU-PF’s older generation was leaving the scene and President Robert Mugabe was even more isolated.
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