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Movement for Democratic Change president Morgan Tsvangirai had a very simple solution for Zimbabwe’s problems nine years ago.

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Dubai-based Rani Investment intends to sell its shareholding in the River Ranch Diamond Mine near Beitbridge to the government. It appears that this has nothing to do with indigenisation. The company has just failed to recapitalise its operations.

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The United States embassy in Harare said President Robert Mugabe saw himself as the Fidel Castro of Southern Africa and was on a crusade to secure his place in history as the black Zimbabwean who brought land back to his people and fought imperialism.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change had totally different motives for wanting to negotiate, ostensibly to end the political and economic crisis in the country according to the United States embassy.

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President Robert Mugabe told the United Nations that Zimbabwe did not enjoy criticising the United States and Britain. The criticism was based on sound, fundamental principles.

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John Nkomo is one of the political survivors from the former Zimbabwe African People’s Union. His rise within the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front has always been viewed with suspicion. He was reportedly too close to President Robert Mugabe. Rumours even said he was related to Mugabe through his brother Albert. Despite all the odds he rose first to national chairman and then vice-president of the party, the highest post any former ZAPU official has ever held. There are about 130 Wikileaks cables on him. Here is the first batch.

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President Robert Mugabe is reported to have used Shona to call for unity with the Movement for Democratic Change to separate Movement for Democratic Change members from their white constituents and international supporters, according to the United States embassy.

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Urban voters voted with their stomachs when they overwhelmingly voted for the Movement for Democratic Change in the urban council elections of 2003 in which the MDC beat the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.

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Former Midlands governor Cephas Msipa said President Robert Mugabe and then Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa together with Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi were behind the violence by war veterans as it was an election strategy to intimidate people into voting for the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.

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President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front were using the land issue to drum up nationalist sentiment and garner votes for the pending parliamentary elections, the United States embassy said in a cable two months before the 2000 elections.

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