The Lovemore Moyo Wikileaks cables

Lovemore Moyo made history when he was elected Speaker of Parliament in August 2008, breaking the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front stranglehold over the past 28 years. Though he was acting chairman of the Movement for Democratic Change, Moyo was little known though he had played key roles in the formation of the Open Forum, Forum Party of Zimbabwe and Imbovhane Yamahlabezulu before joining the Movement for Democratic Change at its formation. There are 29 cables that mention his name. Here they are.

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US embassy feared Zindoga might cut off ties between ZCTU and MDC

The United States embassy in Harare was worried that acting secretary general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Isidore Zindoga, who was suspected of being either a member of the Central Intelligence Organisation or the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front might cut off ties between the labour movement and the Movement for Democratic Change if he was elected secretary general.

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Dealing with Mugabe the consummate survivor

Although presidential elections were just a year away, the United States embassy in Harare was so convinced that President Robert Mugabe would not just go away and mapped out strategies to deal with him and recommended action that the new United States government under George Bush should take.

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