Posts by Charles Rukuni

For the past month, or nearly two months, The Insider has been concentrating on publishing Wikileaks cables. The reason is simple. They are the talk of the town in Zimbabwe.

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Archbishop Pius Ncube had become one of the strongest critics of President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front government. But he did not spare the Movement for Democratic Change or its leader Morgan Tsvangirai either. He was accused of all sorts of things. But he forgot one cardinal thing: never hate your enemy, it spoils your judgment. When the enemy struck the bishop was forced to resign from the church and is now almost forgotten. But here is what he had to say during his hey-days.

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The government had approached the Vatican in the early 2000s requesting that it forces the Archbishop of Bulawayo Pius Ncube to retire according to the former director of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, Michael Auret.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Tom McDonald told Foreign Affairs official Jonathan Wutawunashe that the Daily News had fabricated a story about his meeting with the Bulawayo-based Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube on 21 September 2000.

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Our first search indicated that were as many as 35 Wikileaks cables on publisher Trevor Ncube. After going through every cable we realised that only 19 were really about Trevor…

An official of the United States embassy in Pretoria told publisher Trevor Ncube that the US did not support any political party in Zimbabwe including the Movement for Democratic Change.

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The government was trying to revoke the citizenship of publisher Trevor Ncube because his father was born in Zambia. Zimbabwe did not allow dual citizenship.

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Publisher Trevor Ncube was given his passport back on 14 December after the attorney-general ruled that the seizures were unlawful.

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We have increased the number of Wikileaks cables that you can read under our Wikileaks men to 320 but we have actually published more. Some of the cables have not…

Our initial search for Wikileaks cables on publisher Trevor Ncube indicated that there were 35 cables that mentioned his name. But after going through all the cables we actually found 19. The others either referred to Movement for Democratic Change leader Welshman Ncube or to religious leader Trevor Manhanga.  Here are the 19.

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