Posts by Charles Rukuni

Former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front provincial chairman for Masvingo Daniel Shumba formed his own political party called the United People’s Party on 24 June 2006.

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The United People’s Movement’s only visible member Pearson Mbalekwa said independent legislator for Tsholotsho Jonathan Moyo and former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front chairman for Masvingo Daniel Shumba were on the party’s national executive but he did not name the other members.

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We now have 700 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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Central bank governor Gideon Gono promised a visiting International Monetary Fund team that Zimbabwe would have market-determined exchange and interest rates by September 2005, which was almost a year away.

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Tsholotsho legislator Jonathan Moyo said both the Movement for Democratic Change and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front had been significantly weakened since the March 2005 elections though ZANU-PF had won a two-thirds majority.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono had killed Bindura Nickel Corporation by increasing import duty over 100-fold and raising electricity rates, the general manager Ranganai Chinamatira said in 2004.

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The vice-president of the Commercial Farmers Union Christopher Hawgood told United States embassy officials that pressure on white farmers was intense in October and November because government officials wanted to seize farms after crops were already in the ground.

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United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice piled pressure on the United Nations Security Council to intervene in Zimbabwe before the 27 June presidential elections runoff arguing that conditions were not right and the situation was getting worse because of escalating violence.

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The Huffington Post, just like Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe that it is so fond of criticising, is living in the past.

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A former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front legislator Pearson Mbalekwa, who had just resigned from ZANU-PF, told United States embassy officials that top politicians from ZANU-PF including former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo were planning to launch a Third Force to challenge the two major parties ZANU-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change.

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