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The Capital Radio case has quickly generated a flurry of conflicting court rulings, orders, summons, complaints, injunctions, warrants and contempt charges.

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The Commercial Farmers Union filed a 1000-page lawsuit against President Robert Mugabe and his government on 18 September 2000 in the forlorn hope that the lawsuit could at least allow them to obtain financing for the coming season.

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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is outside the reach of the International Criminal Court because Zimbabwe is not a signatory to the Rome Statute which set up the court so it would require a United Nations Security Council Resolution to haul him to The Hague.

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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo hoped to see a reconciliation agreement in Zimbabwe By March 2004 which would include President Robert Mugabe’s agreement to step down.

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President Robert Mugabe singled out Information Minister Jonathan Moyo for praise while criticising those within the party who strayed from strict party discipline.

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A group of war veterans invade his corporate offices, down his liquor and force the chief operating officer to sit on the floor and chant pro-Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front slogans. When they are done they demand money for a taxi to return home.

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The Supreme Court clipped Information Minister Jonathan Moyo’s wings when it declared unconstitutional section 6 of the Broadcasting Services Act that gave the minister unfettered power to veto the granting of a license by the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe, as well as the requirement to have only one national radio and television station in addition to the public broadcaster, Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.

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War veterans demonstrated in front of Home Affairs Minister John Nkomo’s offices after police evicted hundreds of their colleagues from four farms near Harare.

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Former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front chairman, John Nkomo, who was Minister of Home Affairs at the time, told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Tom McDonald that the United States should let Zimbabwe resolve the land issue on its own.

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The Movement for Democratic Change was in a catch-22 situation when it began to control the country’s major urban centres.

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