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The United States showed why it was interested in Zimbabwe when the Movement for Democratic Change launched a week-long anti-government protest aimed at forcing President Robert Mugabe out of office.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front secretary for Information Nathan Shamuyarira was reported to have scored another victory against Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, described by the United States embassy as “rabidly anti-Western”, by forcing the ministry to admit 13 British journalists to cover the English cricket team’s tour of Zimbabwe.

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Air Zimbabwe was toying with charging its air fares in foreign currency way back in 2003 but the national airline was never allowed to resulting in people flying to London for as little as US$25.

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There were strikes galore in both the public and private sectors at the beginning of 2003 as inflation took a bite.

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Central Bank governor Gideon Gono told United States embassy officials that Information Minister Jonathan Moyo had become a liability to the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front than an asset and was now in trouble for his attacks on party elders.

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The government was forced to concede to end a four-month strike by Air Zimbabwe engineers, giving them more than they had bargained for but one engineer said this was not enough as all the gains had been eroded by inflation.

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The United States embassy accused the government of manipulating figures when the Zimbabwe Central Statistics Office reported that exports rose in 2003 to hit Z$2.3 trillion, or over 20 times the 2002 figure of Z$110.7 billion because this fantastic growth was not adjusted for hyperinflation.

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Beatrice Mtetwa has been one of the leading human rights lawyers in Zimbabwe for the past decade. She has represented journalists, lawyers, human rights activists and Movement for Democratic Change officials. She has also been arrested and detained on several occasions. There are 34 cables that mention her name and shed some light on her activities. Here they are.

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Shedding more public assets in garage-sale fashion was probably the only way for Zimbabwe to stave off unbearable shortages, the United States embassy said more than a decade ago.

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