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Movement for Democratic Change shadow Minister of Finance Tapiwa Mashakada was accused by party president Morgan Tsvangirai of vote buying at the party’s 2003 annual conference together with then Harare mayor Elias Mudzuri.

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Joseph Made has been Minister of Agriculture on and off since 2000 when he was appointed to President Robert Mugabe’s government as one of the technocrats meant to revive the country’s economy. But Made has been accused of destroying the country’s agriculture. The question that remains unanswered up to today is why Mugabe has kept him up to now. There are more than 80 cables on him. Here are the first 50.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono, who was a long standing member of the Commercial Farmers Union, called President Robert Mugabe on his speakerphone so that he and CFU president Doug Taylor-Freeme could brainstorm with Mugabe the revival of the country’s agriculture.

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The Commercial Farmers Union felt that a merger with the Indigenous Commercial Farmers Union was the only way to save the remaining 500 to 600 white-owned farms, but Agriculture Minister Joseph Made stood in the way.

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The suspension of Zimbabwe from the Commonwealth must serve to remind President Robert Mugabe that the rest of the world is watching his every move and will pounce on him if he continues to stray from the straight and narrow path of good governance.

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Emmerson Mnangagwa told a visiting United States delegation when he was Speaker of Parliament and Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front secretary for administration that the Movement for Democratic Change started the violence to which ZANU-PF youths responded “in kind”.

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Emmerson Mnangagwa might have asked President Robert Mugabe to amend the Electoral Act after complaints from United States assistant secretary for African Affairs Walter Kansteiner to save his two children who were studying in the United States.

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Emmerson Mnangagwa and others in President Robert Mugabe’s inner circle would leave the government if they were offered an acceptable exit package.

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Former Speaker of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa refused to be pinned down on whether Zimbabwe would allow United States election observers for the 2002 presidential elections saying he did not know how the government felt since he was no longer a member of the cabinet.

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