Zimbabwe’s inflation had rocketed to 269 percent by April 2003 but United States embassy officials were happy that Information Minister Jonathan Moyo had not yet started doctoring the numbers.
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The United States embassy complained after the deportation of American journalist Andrew Meldrum that immigration officials had lied to them and his lawyers that they were not deporting him.
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The Supreme Court said section 80 of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act which made the publication of “falsehoods” a criminal offence was unconstitutional.
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Two repressive laws, the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Electoral Amendment Bill, are to come up for amendments before parliament.
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A stay-away organised by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions was a success with between 70 to 90 percent of the workers staying at home but the United States embassy said Information Minister Jonathan Moyo could retaliate using the Public Order and Security Act.
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Movement for Democratic Change spokesman Nelson Chamisa said his party would use Voice of America’s Studio 7, which is targeted at Zimbabwe, to expose the cracks within the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front adding, “without VOA we are done”.
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At least six Movement for Democratic Change leaders, including Roy Bennett and Giles Mutsekwa, from Manicaland were arrested in connection with arms caches.
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Movement for Democratic Change youth chairman Nelson Chamisa told United States embassy officials that party secretary general Welshman Ncube was bent on destroying the party and added that opening up the party to disruption and manipulation by the government-controlled courts was political lunacy.
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Movement for Democratic Change legislator for Kuwadzana Nelson Chamisa was arrested for holding a constituency feedback meeting at his house without police approval in what appeared to be continued harassment of the MDC.
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