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National Constitutional Assembly chairman Lovemore Madhuku told United States embassy officials that Emmerson Mnangagwa had decided not to oppose Joice Mujuru as President Robert Mugabe’s successor but was simply playing for time.

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Movement for Democratic Change leaders Welshman Ncube and Gibson Sibanda told a United States embassy official that their party was not like Joshua Nkomo’s Zimbabwe African People’s Union.

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National Constitutional Assembly leader Lovemore Madhuku was reported to be close to the former leader of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Arthur Mutambara and was reportedly the best man at his wedding.

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The United States embassy said although the week-long stay away that had been called by the Movement for Democratic Change was successful in closing down most business in Harare and other cities it was a PR failure.

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The United States embassy commended members of the Women of Zimbabwe Arise for staging demonstrations against the government saying the courage of these ordinary women, usually quite poor, was remarkable in an atmosphere when most citizens were occupied with the day-to-day business of survival.

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President Robert Mugabe is finished politically and can no longer stand up and brazenly claim that the people are behind him. This was the view of the Daily News on Sunday after the week-long anti-government protest that had been called for by the Movement for Democratic Change to force Mugabe to step down.

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The three bishops from Mutare who were trying to broker talks between the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change said they would mobilise churches and other stakeholders to make sure that any constitutional reform would limit executive power and assure that the country would “never, never again” experience the centralised autocracy of Mugabeism.

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The State-owned Herald claimed on 4 June 2003, two days after the start of a week-long protest called by the Movement for Democratic Change to topple President Robert Mugabe, that the West had poured billions of dollars into the protest but was now “red in the face” because the exercise had been futile.

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The United States embassy said protests centred on the government’s economic mismanagement and general misrule resonated with the general public than constitutional reform and other pet rocks of the opposition’s leadership.

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