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John Makamure, the director of the United States government-funded parliamentary support project implemented by the State University of New York, said Webster Shamu and Walter Mzembi were promoted to the cabinet to silence them.

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Do you know who Webster Shamu, Josiah Tungamirai, Shadreck Chipanga, Cain Mathema, David Chapfika, Andrew Langa or Ambrose Mutinhiri are?

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Riot police had to intervene when fuel station attendants at Exor instructed motorists to go and buy coupons to obtain fuel which was in acute short supply at the time.

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Webster Shamu instructed Phil Matibe, who was challenging him for the Chegutu seat in the 2000 parliamentary elections, to withdraw or his farm would be seized.

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The United States pushed for Zimbabwe to be included on the United Nations Security Council agenda before the June 2008 presidential elections run-off because of increasing violence that would not allow free and fair elections.

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Significant differences between Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai and independent presidential candidate Simba Makoni showed that there was no way that a united opposition could be achieved to challenge Robert Mugabe of the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front in the presidential elections run-off of 2008.

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A former legislator for Chimanimani Michael Mataure told United States embassy officials in February 2001 that President Robert Mugabe had become so unpopular that he would have to deploy 250 000 people to canvass for him to win the 2002 presidential elections but his party simply did not have the resources to mount such a campaign.

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Webster Shamu said there was going to be civil war in Zimbabwe if the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front did not win the June 2000 parliamentary elections where it was facing its biggest challenge yet from the nine-month-old Movement for Democratic Change.

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Webster Shamu, who was known as Charles Ndlovu at the time, was a womaniser and a heavy drinker though he was married according to the United States embassy in Harare.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s foreign policy and security advisor Stuart Doran told United States embassy officials in Pretoria that the MDC had lost hope that SADC as a collective, or even a majority of SADC countries, would take any public stance against the regime in Zimbabwe, the ongoing violence, or the likely possibility that the run-off election would be rigged in Mugabe’s favour.

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