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Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo is probably one of the longest serving ministers for that portfolio. He has been accused of all sorts with the worst exposure coming from his ex-wife who wanted her share of the wealth Chombo had amassed since joining government. There are 64 cables that mention his name. Here are the first 50.

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Zimbabweans can vote in the United Kingdom even though the country withdrew from the Commonwealth, according to Lord McNally, British Minister of State for Justice.

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Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo announced on 15 July 2005, that the government was halting Operation Restore Order (Murambatsvina) for 10 days to allow low-density suburb residents time to legalise any structures that did not conform to their land’s official plans.

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A British Member of Parliament who moved the debate on Zimbabwe in the United Kingdom Parliament yesterday claimed that up to 500 000 of the 1 million farm workers who were removed from white farms had died as a result of a combination of malnutrition and inadequate health services.

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In what appeared to be an effort to portray itself as a clean administration in the run-up to the 2005 general elections, the government said it was going to take back farms from senior government officials who had taken more than one farm under the fast-track land reform.

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Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo appointed an eight-member commission to run the City of Harare and though they were all from the private sector they all had government ties.

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Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo fired Harare’s first publicly elected mayor Elias Mudzuri but did not give any reasons except that this was a result of an investigation into Mudzuri’s conduct as mayor and that the President had directed him to vacate his office and house within seven days.

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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo made a last minute bid to broker talks between the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change just before the 2003 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting but he made very little progress.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan was not impressed by the Movement for Democratic Change’s RESTART programme describing it as “broad in scope but short on specifics”.

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The British parliament is to debate British policy on Zimbabwe today.

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