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Theresa Makone has been one of the most powerful women in the Movement for Democratic Change and together with her husband Ian, they have been party of MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s inner cabinet. The couple is reported to control the party’s financial strings. They were allegedly the channel for party funding to avoid the Political Finances Act which barred parties from receiving outside funding. The power she wields within the party is demonstrated by the fact that she is the Minister of the powerful post of Home Affairs. There are only seven cables that mention her name. Here they are.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front had three options after its 29 March 2008 election defeat, according to a cable released by Wikileaks.

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Movement for Democratic Change main faction leader Morgan Tsvangirai was prepared to work his rival Arthur Mutambara and not with Simba Makoni though Makoni had polled 8 percent of the votes in the presidential elections.

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As the government continued to delay the release of results for the 2008 elections, the Herald resorted to liberation struggle language describing Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai and presidential candidate Simba Makoni as Western stooges who were being used to sabotage the land reform programme.

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Theresa Makone and her husband Ian were among the Movement for Democratic Change members arrested in what appeared to be a purge of MDC activists in March 2007. Police reportedly confiscated two guns from Makone’s home.

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Movement for Democratic Change candidate Theresa Makone was allegedly threatened with death for planning to run as a Member of Parliament by youths allegedly belonging to the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front in 2004.

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Oppah Muchinguri is one of the most powerful women in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. She was an aide to ZANLA commander Josiah Tongogara and survived the accident that killed him. Some people believe that Muchinguri is being rewarded for keeping quiet about how Tongogara really died just days before he was supposed to return to Zimbabwe with the rest of the ZANU-PF leaders and military. But even then she still remains a political power player within the party and the presidential succession battle. There are 25 Wikileaks cables on her. Here they are.

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Elements from the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, including retired general Solomon Mujuru, were in contact with Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai two days after the elections seeking to deny President Robert Mugabe a victory.

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The Mutasa who told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee that Oppah Muchinguri was a Karanga not a Manyika was not Didymus but Manatsa. The error is strongly regretted.

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Oppah Muchinguri, fired as Minister of Women’s Affairs because President Robert Mugabe could no longer accommodate those who had lost in the 2008 elections, bounced back as a member of the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee of the inclusive government.

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