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Zimbabwe was on Tuesday allowed to sell rough diamonds from Marange’s two diamond companies Mbada and Marange Resources with immediate effect.

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Information Minister Jonathan was linked to a new trust Inyika Trust one of whose members was Harare lawyer Terrence Hussein who said the trust’s main purpose was to provide legal assistance and representation to communal farmers and landless Zimbabweans.

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Information Minister Jonathan Moyo piled pressure on Chief Justice Anthony Gubbay to resign or recuse himself from cases involving the Commercial Famers Union because he had stated way back in 1991 his stance on the land issue.

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The Supreme Court on 10 November ordered the government to halt all farm occupations and resettlement efforts until it complied with all legal requirements under the Land Acquisition Act.

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Jonathan Moyo has courted controversy from the time he was at the University of Zimbabwe, when he moved to the Ford Foundation in Kenya, when he joined the Wits University in South Africa, when he joined the Zimbabwe government, when he left to become an independent Member of Parliament, when he rejoined ZANU-PF and of course when Wikileaks released its diplomatic cables.

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Police on 4 October 2000 shut down a private radio station Capital Radio which was operating from a makeshift studio at the five-star Crown Plaza Hotel.

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A farmer from Karoi Marshall Roper was attacked with a machete by a war veteran and other squatters who ordered him not to plant tobacco on the farm they had occupied.

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Police evicted hundreds of war veterans from four farms near Harare prompting the veterans to march on the streets of the capital demonstrating against the government’s action.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa who was recently quoted as saying that those who collaborated with the party’s enemies in secret cables released by Wikileaks should be punished regardless of the positions they hold in the party is himself cited in 84 cables.

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John Makumbe has been one of the most outstanding critics of President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front since the departure of Jonathan Moyo from the University of Zimbabwe. He has also been closely allied to the Movement for Democratic Change. But we have found only 17 Wikileaks cables that mention his name. Here are all the cables.

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