The Commercial Farmers Union was so divided at its 59th congress in 2002 that it was literally grasping at straws in the forlorn hope that its members could be spared by cooperating on land reform with the government.
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The government, which had ordered the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace to stop food distribution in Binga, was forced to resume after pressure from the United States government and the Vatican, according to a cable released by Wikileaks.
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The first Movement for Democratic Change mayor of a city Alois Chaimiti of Masvingo told United States embassy officials in June 2002 that the government was so broke that it was trying to squeeze money from relatively successful local authorities.
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Elias Mudzuri got off on the wrong foot with some people in the Combined Harare Residents Association and his own Movement for Democratic Change by taking possession of the mayoral Mercedes and moving into the guest house of a lavish mayoral mansion built by the previous regime, according to a cable released by Wikileaks.
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Food relief agencies were put in a quandary in 2002 over allegations that food was being distributed along political lines with those opposed to the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front being denied food.
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ZANU-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa is persistently described as a hardliner in the diplomatic cables that have been released by Wikileaks. The soft-spoken politician is known to be very loyal to President Robert Mugabe. There are 90 cables that mention his name, and so far we have published 36 under his dossier. We intend to publish them all.
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ZANU-PF secretary for external affairs Didymus Mutasa scored another major victory when President Robert Mugabe reshuffled his cabinet in February 2004, reinforcing his influence in Manicaland province.
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A United States senator Jim Inhofe yesterday reintroduced the Zimbabwe Sanctions Repeal Act of 2011, legislation that seeks to repeal the economic sanctions originally imposed on Zimbabwe in 2001 under the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act.
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Britain’s Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Lord Howell of Guildford said on Monday diamonds from Marange have not yet been cleared by the Kimberley Process and should therefore not be traded.
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