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The concerted fast-track land reform that the government had embarked on since 2000 had divided white farmers by February 2001 with some arguing that they should work with the government to break the impasse while others said the government was not interested in any compromise because as far as the government was concerned land was political.

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Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo, who was exposed by his former wife in an acrimonious divorce as one of the richest politicians in Zimbabwe has 63 Wikileaks cables that cite his name. 

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There was keen interest from diplomats and other political watchers when the Movement for Democratic Change challenged a decree issued by President Robert Mugabe prohibiting the nullification of the election of any Member of Parliament.

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Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo told peasants who had invaded commercial farms to in the Darwendale area to demarcate their own plots because the government did not have technicians to do so.

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Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo was described as a non-entity in President Robert Mugabe’s 2000 cabinet which saw him bring in young technocrats while ditching some of his loyalists.

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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. Here are the cables.

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2008 was one of the most unproductive years on record for the Parliament of Zimbabwe, according to a cable just released by Wikileaks.

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