Former Finance Minister Simba Makoni told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan that President Robert Mugabe was not interested in accommodating the Movement for Democratic Change but in crushing it.
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Several journalists suspected to be Voice of America’s Studio 7 stringers were fired by the state media as well as by the private media which were reportedly under pressure from Information Minister Jonathan Moyo.
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The government was so desperate at the beginning of 2004 that it asked the United Nations for assistance to organise the 2005 parliamentary elections.
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The Administrative Court once again allowed the Daily News, banned on 23 September, to resume publication but riot police prevented the paper from publishing.
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The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front negotiating team of Nicholas Goche and Patrick Chinamasa failed to turn up for the South African brokered talks with the Movement for Democratic Change in Pretoria on 7 July 2007.
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Finance Minister Tendai Biti is considered the second most powerful person in the Movement for Democratic Change. Some Wikileaks cables have even said he wanted to be Deputy Prime Minister. There are 264 cables on him. Here are the first 50.
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The government on 22 June 2007 gazetted the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment bill which seeks to secure at least 51 percent of the shares in every public company for indigenous Zimbabweans.
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Talks between the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change began in Pretoria on 17 June 2007 with the two sides agreeing on a five point agenda for future negotiations.
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Nicholas Goche does not have a high profile but he is one of the most powerful politicians within the Zimbabwe African National- Union Patriotic Front. This is shown by the fact that President Robert Mugabe selected him as one of the chief negotiators in the talks that led to the signing of the Global Political Agreement and the formation of the inclusive government. There are 95 cables that mention his name.
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Nicholas Goche was among the 39 names to be included in the new inclusive government and a cable by the United States embassy said Mugabe was set to reappoint many of the members of his old cabinet which he had said a year earlier was “the worst one he has ever had”.
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