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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said there was no room for life presidents in Zimbabwe and promised to step down as party leader after Zimbabweans liberated themselves from the current dictatorship.

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Former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo said a group of reform-minded individuals that cut across political lines had in 2007 talked about coming up with a United Front that would be led by a candidate acceptable to both the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change.

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Insurance giant Old Mutual, which is listed in Harare, London and Johannesburg, among others, came under fire for its 18 percent stake in Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers), in which the government is the majority shareholder.

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Exiled businessman Strive Masiyiwa might have been offered the presidency of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change when the party split up but he was on party founder Morgan Tsvangirai’s side.

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Uncertainty over property rights was reported to have scuttled a US$167 million partnership deal between South African retail giant Shoprite and OK Zimbabwe Limited, according to a cable released by Wikileaks.

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A lawyer with the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights Otto Saki said exiled Zimbabwe businessman Strive Masiyiwa had not held a valid Zimbabwean passport for several years.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray recommended way back in January 2010 that the United States lift sanctions on three State-owned banks; the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe, Agribank and ZB Bank and Building Society following an appeal from Finance Minister Tendai Biti.

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Econet boss Strive Masiyiwa told United States embassy officials on 31 August 2005 that Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono had “starved” the nation of fuel and other key items to accumulate the $120 million it paid the International Monetary Fund two days earlier.

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Foreign investors flocked back to the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange after it reopened in February 2009 and it had risen by 64 percent by the end of September. Trading was suspended in November 2008.

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The United States Agency for International Development, a government agency, partly funded the Movement for Democratic Change’s court challenge of the 2002 presidential elections which were won the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s Robert Mugabe.

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