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The secretary general of the Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Tendai Biti was released from jail on 26 June, a day before the presidential elections runoff.

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Lands Minister and Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front chairman John Nkomo renewed his effort to locate and take away properties from ZANU-PF and government heavyweights who were defying the one-family one farm stated policy.

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Nicholas Goche has been one of President Robert Mugabe’s confidantes. He has been the party’s chief negotiator, rose to the powerful post of State Security Minister and currently holds the transport ministry. There are 95 Wikileaks cables that mention his name. Here are the first 50.

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Central Bank governor Gideon Gono gave a copy of a letter he had written to President Robert Mugabe recommending that the president ensures free and fair elections and open up the electoral process to international observers including the United States and Britain to United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGhee.

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Political analysts Ibbo Mandaza who was linked to the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front said the Movement for Democratic Change was fractured, weak and irrelevant so he did not think talks with ZANU-PF would go anywhere.

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Social Welfare Minister Nicholas Goche told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell that Zimbabwe was expecting a harvest of 800 000 tonnes of maize but needed to import 1.2 million tonnes because farmers tended to keep most of their harvest in times of drought.

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Former Finance Minister Simba Makoni told banks, bureaus de change and leading exporters that a policy to devalue the Zimbabwe dollar had been agreed but this time everyone involved must stick and play together and not allow the parallel or black market to get too far away from the official rate.

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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 100.

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International surveys have rated Zimbabwe as the worst country to live in but one of Zimbabwe’s leading investment experts says Zimbabwe is the place to be in 2012.

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The Minister of State Security Nicholas Goche told United States embassy officials that he did not know who was calling the shots in the Democratic Republic of Congo but he believed it was the Congolese people.

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