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Former Midlands Provincial Governor Cephas Msipa told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell that though he felt that it was time for President Robert Mugabe to go, Mugabe would still prevail in any power struggle with former army commander General Solomon Mujuru.

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Idasa analyst Sydney Masamvu told United States embassy officials soon after the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front conference at Goromonzi in 2006 that Solomon Mujuru was on a war path to get President Robert Mugabe out of office.

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Old Mutual managing director Zomunoda Chizura said the Reserve Bank was inflating the amount of money it had seized during the 2006 currency changeover saying the confiscation figure was impossible due to the sheer volume of currency supposedly involved.

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State Security Minister Didymus Mutasa told an online newspaper days before the crucial Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic annual conference in 2006 that someone might call for party leader Robert Mugabe to become president for life and permanent presidential candidate.

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That was the question being asked when Barclays Bank decided to buy the controlling in stake in ABSA, one of the country’s four largest banks. Up until then, the government had what was called a “four-pillar” policy which reflected its preference to keep a minimum of four large banks relatively competitive, healthy and South African-owned.

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A group of religious leaders presented a 43- page document entitled “The Zimbabwe We want” to President Robert Mugabe on 27 October.

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The United States yesterday lifted sanctions on the Agricultural Development Bank of Zimbabwe and the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe but said sanctions on all entities and individuals effected by the executive order of 25 July 2008 remained in force.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell was surprised when Movement for Democratic Change- Mutambara faction’s Priscilla Mushonga told him that Vice-president Joice Mujuru and Central Bank governor Gideon Gono were adversaries because he thought they were allies.

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The Movement for Democratic Change’s “final push” of June 2003 failed because people were not yet ready to undertake high-risk activist behaviour in defiance of the Robert Mugabe regime.

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Central Bank governor Gideon Gono told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell that Didymus Mutasa and Joseph Made had no place in a post-Mugabe government.

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