War veterans leader and trade unionist Joseph Chinotimba had turned farm workers against their employers and most farmers, especially tobacco producers, were leaving because there was no hope of normalcy or business as usual returning to Zimbabwe.
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Former chief executive officer of the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company and later deputy Minister of Information Bright Matonga is reported to have hired war veterans leader and self-styled commander of farm invasions Joseph Chinotimba to evict Vince and Monica Schultz from their horticultural farm though they had won the right to remain on the farm in the High Court.
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We have decided to dedicate December to Finance Minister Tendai Biti’s Wikileaks cables. Our initial search indicates that he is mentioned in 264 cables much more than former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo.
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Finance Minister Tendai Biti is considered one of the most powerful men in the Movement for Democratic Change where as secretary-general he is generally regarded as the party’s number two. But he is also said to be very ambitious. There are 231 cables that mention his name.
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Movement for Democratic Change legislator for Harare Central Mike Auret told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Tom McDonald that his party was planning to impeach President Robert Mugabe and had gathered overwhelming evidence to prove that he was behind the violence in the run-up to the 2000 elections.
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Movement for Democratic Change president Morgan Tsvangirai told a rally to celebrate the party’s first anniversary that “Mugabe should go peacefully, if he does not, we will remove him violently” because he had been caught up “in the excitement of the moment”.
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The South African court case in which the Mail and Guardian newspaper which is owned by Zimbabwean publisher Trevor Ncube was requesting the release of a report by two South African judges on the 2002 presidential elections in Zimbabwe was referred back to the High Court by the country’s highest court, the Constitutional Court.
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The government announced amendments to the Land Acquisition Act closing several loopholes through which commercial farmers based legal challenges to compulsory acquisition of their land.
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The United States embassy in Harare said a Sunday Mail attack on the Voice of America’s Studio 7 which is targeted at Zimbabwe ended up as an advertorial because it announced the existence of the station, its frequency and time of broadcast.
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Zimbabweans know what they want and are able to recognise patronising top down approaches in development issues that treat them as subjects and objects of policy and not shareholders and crafters of these issues.
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