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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said political parties that rely on violence to win elections have no place in the new democratic dispensation.

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Gideon Gono was at one time the de facto Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. He had become so powerful that he sent shivers through many original founders of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. But he is now a pale shadow of his former self. There are 290 cables on Gono, making him third with the highest number of cables after Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe. Here are the first 200.

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The United States embassy hosted a reception for an International Monetary Fund mission team, barely a month after the swearing in of the inclusive government, and tried to dictate to the team what was wrong with Zimbabwe.

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High Court judge Moses Chinhengo on 7 May 2001 referred the case of Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai to the Supreme Court at the request of his lawyer Chris Andersen.

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The Movement for Democratic Change won a major legal victory when Judge James Devittie nullified two ZANU-PF parliamentary victories in Buhera North and Hurungwe and declared the two seats vacant.

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When the government introduced foreign currency vouchers to enable civil servants to buy goods from local shops rather than exchange them for cash at the formation of the inclusive government, Finance Minister quickly reversed the decision allowing people to cash them at banks because he wanted to stop central bank governor Gideon Gono from printing vouchers not backed by cash.

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President Robert Mugabe said he did not see any reason why the people he had appointed recently, including central bank governor Gideon Gono and attorney-general Johannes Tomana, should go, and they were not going to go.

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The United States said, as late as January 2009, though some African heads of state viewed the election of Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi as African Union chair as a “lost year” there were areas where it could work with Libya to advance its interests towards engagement with the AU.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono announced in his latest monetary policy statement that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe was allowing gold producers to sell their own bullion.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono in what appeared to be his last monetary policy statement under the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front government announced the liberalisation of the foreign exchange market, removed 12 zeros from the Zimbabwe dollar but said the local currency would remain on the market.

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