President Robert Mugabe was so out of touch with reality that when he was told that most of his ministers had multiple farms, he simply said: “We have to lead by example” but never took any action.
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There are only two cables about Charles Mutama who seems to be an intriguing character. First he was reportedly arrested, tortured and forced to lie naked in the urine of a CIO officer. Then he comes up with a grand plan to bomb police stations in five cities. But though his name is cited in only two cables, embassy officials describe him as a long-time contact.
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Zimbabwean publisher Trevor Ncube told United States embassy officials on 30 August 2007 that he was so thoroughly disgusted by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change that he believed that only a third way political force could take the country forward.
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It was not only the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front that was facing a crisis at the end of 2004 because of the so-called Dinyane debacle in which some party members including former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo were allegedly involved in plotting a “smart coup”, but the main opposition Movement for democratic Change was in a dilemma too.
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The Daily News received a short-lived reprieve on 21 January 2004 when High Court Judge Tendai Uchena ordered police to vacate its premises to allow the paper to resume publishing.
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