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Speaker of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa was on a charm offensive with the diplomatic corps in an attempt to soften the government’s, and his own, image.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front bigwigs were in for a surprise when two Parliamentary committees tabled reports that were highly critical of the government.

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Emmerson Mnangagwa, the government’s point man in the Democratic Republic of Congo, assured the United States embassy in Harare that Zimbabwe would ensure that the DRC remained calm following the assassination of President Laurent Kabila.

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President Robert Mugabe was not going to go gently into that good night of retirement and it was almost impossible to convince him to do so.

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University of Zimbabwe political scientist John Makumbe came to the rescue of the Movement for Democratic Change when the party came under fire for not capitalising on its June 2000 election performance which saw the party winning 57 out of the 120 contested seats in parliament.

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Speaker of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa denied that Zimbabwean troops were involved in any new clashes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Tom McDonald, did not believe him.

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The secretary for Foreign Affairs Willard Chiwewe asked British High Commissioner to Zimbabwe Peter Longworth what it would take to normalise relations with Britain.

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Speaker of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa, who as the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front secretary for administration was in charge of the party’s businesses, was to chair the First National Bank of Congo which had given the ZANU-PF owned First Banking Corporation of Zimbabwe a five-year management contract.

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Emmerson Mnangagwa is one of the most feared people in Zimbabwe. Once described as the Son of God because he was believed to be the logical successor of President Robert Mugabe, his political star has been rising and falling over the past three decades. He is still considered a presidential contender and is reported to have been virtually running the country since 2008 through the joint operations command. He is reported to be unpopular within the party but he is so powerful that no one really knows how true this is. There are 194 cables on him. Here they are:

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Speaker of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Tom McDonald that disruptions to the economy caused by the land reform programme were the cost of redistributing ownership of the land.

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