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An International Monetary Fund team that was in Zimbabwe on a 10-day at the end of January 2006 failed to establish where Zimbabwe had got the US$120 million it had paid to the IMF six months earlier.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti is considered the second most powerful person in the Movement for Democratic Change. Some Wikileaks cables have even said he wanted to be Deputy Prime Minister. There are 264 cables on him. Here are the first 168.

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The United States embassy in Harare did not agree with the conclusion of an International Monetary Fund mission to Zimbabwe that the government’s income estimate for 2009 was overly optimistic saying in light of the gaping lack of information on private sector activity and its capacity to rebound, it believed Finance Minister Tendai Biti’s revised budget broadly reflected actual government incomes and expenditures.

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The United States embassy was full of praise for Finance Minister Tendai Biti’s revised first budget saying it was a major policy improvement.

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No one has been so controversial in his short political career like former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo. He was a strong critic of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, then joined the party to become its propaganda chief, but got expelled for defying the party, but he was readmitted and got back into the politburo.

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The Insider has started a blog for its book- How to Buy a House for Half the price to promote the book and to write about the latest housing trends in South Africa.

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We now have 800 Wikileaks cables on one page, though we have published over 900. Here is the line-up. To read more cables use our index where cables are indexed by name.

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Former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, who ran the government’s propaganda machine from 2000 to 2005 when he was expelled from the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, was back in familiar territory as he blasted the Movement for Democratic Change and sought to be readmitted to ZANU-PF.

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Former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo attacked Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai for arranging a trip to the United States saying the trip was a personal disaster and a complete waste of time.

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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 100.

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