Posts by Charles Rukuni

New Zealand had to seek clarification urgently about what to do with Harare when the Zimbabwean government paid back US$120 million to the International Monetary Fund in August 2005.   Zimbabwe owed US$290 million and was at the time facing an economic crisis at home.

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Zimbabwe’s attorney-general Johannes Tomana, whose appointment has been challenged by the Movement for Democratic Change, was today added to the United States sanctions list because he has selectively prosecuted political opponents and their perceived supporters in an effort to undermine Zimbabwe’s democratic processes and institutions.

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The cholera outbreak that killed more than 4 000 people in Zimbabwe in 2008-2009 did not pose any threat to American embassy officials and staff. Instead, they were more worried about the political, security and logistical issues. The embassy was actually on “Growing Potential for Drawback” since the political violence of March 2007 which saw Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai being severely assaulted and detained by the police.

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Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan, a “shady white” Zimbabwean businessman with links to the British intelligence and the Zimbabwean business community were all frantically working to easy President Robert Mugabe out soon after the 2000 parliamentary elections which the Movement for Democratic Change lost narrowly to ZANU-PF but he turned down the offers.

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Elton Mangoma, one of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s closest advisors, told the United States government in October last year that the Movement for Democratic Change intended to buy out Zimbabwe’s military and service chiefs by setting up a trust fund for them so that they could have something to fall back on because most of them had not made any meaningful investments.

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