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The United States embassy commended members of the Women of Zimbabwe Arise for staging demonstrations against the government saying the courage of these ordinary women, usually quite poor, was remarkable in an atmosphere when most citizens were occupied with the day-to-day business of survival.

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President Robert Mugabe is finished politically and can no longer stand up and brazenly claim that the people are behind him. This was the view of the Daily News on Sunday after the week-long anti-government protest that had been called for by the Movement for Democratic Change to force Mugabe to step down.

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The three bishops from Mutare who were trying to broker talks between the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change said they would mobilise churches and other stakeholders to make sure that any constitutional reform would limit executive power and assure that the country would “never, never again” experience the centralised autocracy of Mugabeism.

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The State-owned Herald claimed on 4 June 2003, two days after the start of a week-long protest called by the Movement for Democratic Change to topple President Robert Mugabe, that the West had poured billions of dollars into the protest but was now “red in the face” because the exercise had been futile.

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The United States embassy said protests centred on the government’s economic mismanagement and general misrule resonated with the general public than constitutional reform and other pet rocks of the opposition’s leadership.

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War veterans who stormed the five-star Meikles Hotel during the two-day stay-away organised by the Movement for Democratic Change yelled at an American citizen and his six colleagues: “White animals, don’t you look at us; get out of Zimbabwe; we don’t want you here.”

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Police were more prepared when the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions tried to organise protest marches which promoted United States ambassador Christopher Dell to comment that the government did not take the National Constitutional Assembly seriously.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his supporters had followed Julius Caesar’s advice- if you break the law do it once to seize power- but they had failed to seize power, the Herald commented after the first day of the proposed week-long anti-government demonstration to force President Robert Mugabe to step down.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell, who National Constitutional Assembly leader Lovemore Madhuku briefed regularly about his demonstrations, said the NCA leader generally overstated the size of his events.

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South Africans last year saved on average R2.80 for every R100 of their disposable, or after tax, income, the latest Housing Review from ABSA says.

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