Posts by Charles Rukuni

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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If Julian Assange were a Zimbabwean, he would have been labelled a Mugabe apologist.  The cables his Wikileaks has released so far all appear to be favouring President Robert Mugabe. They prove what he has been saying all along, that the West is fighting for regime change. Of course there have been some cables castigating him as being a “crazy old man” and accusing his wife and sister of looting diamonds from Marange.

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