The United States embassy in Harare recommended that Washington should add Jonathan Moyo’s three daughters onto their sanctions list more than four months after Moyo had been expelled from the government and the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.
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Fuel companies including multinationals, ExxonMobil, were benefitting from the cheap money that was being provided by central bank governor Gideon Gono and were even making a profit though they had to battle with corrupt ministers and briefcase operators.
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Central bank governor Gideon Gono predicted that Zimbabwe’s economy which had been on the decline for nearly seven years would grow by 3.5 percent to 5 percent boosted by tobacco production which he said would grow by 150 percent.
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Despite what appears to be sour relations between the two governments, Zimbabwe is so important to the United Kingdom that it is one of the 71 countries in the world where Britain has a defence attaché.
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Bulawayo mayor Japhet Ndabeni-Ncube was so optimistic that the Movement for Democratic Change would sweep the 2005 elections that he said it would win at least 80 of the 120 seats nationally, or “70, if we fail completely”.
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Former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo said the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was a spent force. It was a party of tribalists with no direction.
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Mutare was an export hub to the United States according to figures that were given to United States embassy officials by the chief executives of three companies there.
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Funny how times flies! We are already into 2012. Normal elections are just 15 months away.
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The pre-election environment for the 2005 parliamentary elections was improved considerably over the run-ups to the parliamentary elections of 2000 or the presidential election of 2002, according to a cable by the United States embassy that has been released by Wikileaks.
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Defiant Information Minister Jonathan Moyo stood as an independent candidate for Tsholotsho after the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front said it had reserved the seat for a woman candidate and was immediately fired from the party and from cabinet.
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