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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan said way back in 2003 that though he felt that land reform in Zimbabwe was unjust and devastating to agriculture, he did not believe that any future government could completely reverse it or pay full compensation.

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Air Zimbabwe is looking for a strategic partner who must pour in US$750 million. It intends to recapitalise the airline and offers an immediate opportunity to provide a hanger fire protection system.

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Air Zimbabwe may be in the doldrums but it is a force to reckon with. It even made it into the Wikileaks cables. Here are the first two where chief executive Peter Chikumba was emphasising that the airline must be privatised. But one must ask, why were the Americans interested in such a small airline which was a drain on the fiscus?

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Agriculture Minister Joseph Made initiated a series of conversations with the Commercial Famers Union from January 2003 but CFU president Colin Cloete felt the minister’s main aim was to get Britain and the United States to ease sanctions on Zimbabwe’s elite.

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The Herald refused to apologise after a series of stories which diplomats complained had been distorted arguing that newspapers throughout the world were not immune to making mistakes and The Herald was no exception.

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A key state witness in the trial of Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s treason trial said the United States government new about the alleged assassination plot of President Robert Mugabe because one of the participants at his meetings with Tsvangirai was a Central Intelligence Agency official.

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Zimbabwe’s economy was shrinking by one percent every month around 2002 that the United States embassy asked whether it would implode.

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The three co-chairs of the Constitutional Select Committee have released a document setting out the 26 constitutional principles guiding the drafting of the country’s new constitution.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai in October 2002 appealed to United States President George Bush to appeal to the United Nations Security Council to intervene in Zimbabwe to stop a bloodbath in Zimbabwe.

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Fuel queues disappeared abruptly over one weekend in October 2002 giving an impression that the government had addressed the fuel shortage in the country but what had happened was that it had ordered suppliers to starve commercial clients to serve retail customers only.

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