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Finance Minister Tendai Biti was adamant that central bank governor Gideon Gono had to leave the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the issue had to be dealt with as soon as possible, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGhee.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai met central bank governor Gideon Gono to convince him to step down after a heated debate in cabinet that he should be investigated for the central bank debt.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti demanded that cabinet should investigate central bank governor Gideon Gono over the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s US$1.2 billion debt.

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The Prime Minister and Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai has fought for democracy in Zimbabwe since he became secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions in the 1980s. It was in that role that he was catapulted to the MDC. He has the highest number of Wikileaks cables released on Zimbabwe, more than 800. But whether it was for better or worse, only the public can decide. Here are the first 100.

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The United States embassy said though sanctions on Zimbabwe which affected two banks in which the government had a stake, Agribank and Zimbank, were highly effectual, it was considering recommending that the two banks be removed from the sanctions list because the sanctions were also hurting the banks’ largely rural bases.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti slashed the 2009 budget from US$1.9 billion to US$1 billion and directed that all revenue be remitted to treasury in a move that was aimed at stripping central bank governor Gideon Gono of his powers.

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The country’s only nominally private television station Joy TV suspended British Broadcasting Corporation news programming without any explanation.

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The Movement for Democratic Change on 12 April filed a 135-page legal challenge of the March 2002 presidential elections which were won by President Robert Mugabe.

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The United States was accused of coordinating a terror campaign to fast-track Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai into power.

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Movement for Democratic Change shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Tendai Biti told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan that he did not think much of South African President Thabo Mbeki who was one of the mediators in the Zimbabwe crisis describing him as a “cold, calculating politician”.

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