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Minister of State Security Didymus Mutasa said the Southern African Development Community Tribunal was “daydreaming” after it ruled that Zimbabwe’s land reform programme was racially discriminatoryand violated Zimbabwe’s SADC treaty obligations with regard to upholding the rule of law and respect for human rights.

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The Southern African Development Community observer mission had already decided that the best way forward for Zimbabwe was a government of national unity before the presidential elections run-off from which Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out a week before the polls.

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A disillusioned member of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front central committee Manatsa Mutasa told United States embassy officials less than a week after the 2008 polls that Tsvangirai had won 48 percent of the vote so the ZANU-PF had begun a campaign of violence, spearheaded by Minister Oppah Muchinguri, Deputy Speaker of Parliament Kumbirai Kangai, Air Marshall Perence Shiri, and Minister Didymus Mutasa, to intimidate the population and MDC leaders.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono was forced to stop the fungibility of shares in Old Mutual, ABC and Kingdom Meikles Africa, after the Zimbabwe dollar went haywire with the local currency plummeting from Z$275 million to Z$430 million to the United States dollar in one week.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee that Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leader Robert Mugabe had agreed to concede defeat after the 2008 elections but wanted an additional six months in office which the MDC rejected.

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While everyone was focussed on the disputed election results following the delay in announcing the results of the presidential election in 2008, foreign investors were flooding into the country because they could get world class companies at Zimbabwe prices- literally a pittance.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front planned to rig the 2008 elections in favour of President Robert Mugabe so that he could pull off a 51 percent victory, according to a cable released by Wikileaks.

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The chief executive officer of Old Mutual Luke Ngwerume threatened five years ago to close the company’s Zimbabwe arm before it allowed anyone to control its operations and brand.

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