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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai says senior Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leaders and military generals smuggled 30 000 carats of diamonds in April and May to raise funds which they used to steal the 31 July elections.
Ina paper he presented at the Oxford University on Thursday evening, Tsvangirai, who lost the elections to Robert Mugabe of ZANU-PF, said he had “impeccable information” on how the 30 000 carats were sold through an intermediary in Angola.
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Nkala dies- Former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front treasurer, Enos Nkala, has died. He was 81. Nkala was one of the most powerful people in ZANU-PF until he stepped down from government following the Willowvale Motor scandal of the late 1980s. He had the distinction that the party that has been in power since independence was founded at his house in Highfield.
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Zimbabwe’s women can bring about sanity in parliament, preserve national unity and end corruption in the country’s parastatals, according to Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, the only senior member of Welshman Ncube’s Movement for Democratic Change still a legislator.
Misihairabwi-Mushonga, the former Minister of Regional Integration, said the bringing in of more women in parliament would change the way debate was done in parliament because there was now more oestrogen than testosterone.
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A leading member of the Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai displayed how arrogance cost the party the 31 July elections. He told the people of Insiza South that since he was a member of the national executive even if he got a person from the toilet, they had to vote for him.
According to a report by the Solidarity Peace Trust –End of a road- the 2013 elections in Zimbabwe: “LM came. He first spoke about devolution. In the end he introduced the candidate he imposed, and then we asked him- we asked him what kind of devolution he was talking about. Because you spoke about devolution first, and then you introduce your imposed candidate….? He then went on to say because he is at national level whatever he says goes. He said even if he got that person from the toilet, it was a must for us to vote for him. We said no! We don’t know that person. Things got messed up.”
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Tsvangirai throws in the towel-Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai today withdrew his presidential election court challenge in which he was calling for the nullification of the 31 July elections won by Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leader Robert Mugabe. Tsvangirai also said the presence of Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku at the National Heroes Acre addressed by President-elect Robert Mugabe was likely to deprive him of a fair hearing.
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President Robert Mugabe has finally let the cat out of the bag. Jonathan Moyo was responsible for the well-oiled 2013 Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front campaign which saw Mugabe win 61 percent of the presidential vote and his party score more than a two-thirds majority in parliament.
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Two Chicago men charged with trying to help Mugabe bust sanctions – Two men from Chicago Prince Asiel ben Israel and Gregory Turner, who called themselves the “Chicago connection”, were today charged with trying to help President Robert Mugabe bust United States sanctions on him and his government. Ben Israel and Turner attempted to persuade undisclosed federal and state government officials — including an Illinois state senator and two US representatives from Chicago — to push for the lifting of the sanctions. The two reached a consulting agreement with Zimbabwe officials to be paid $3.4 million but it was unclear whether they received any money.
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The Insider is back with a slicker, new look. It had to suspend publication following frequent shut-downs which made it impossible to predict when the site would be up or down. The break has also allowed us to upgrade the site which is also on a new server.
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