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Air Zimbabwe was losing US$4 million every month and could not meet its operating costs, its then chief executive Peter Chikumba told the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructure.

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David Mutasa a cousin of then Security Minister Didymus Mutasa lost the 2008 Makoni rural council elections but appointed himself councillor and was then “elected” chairman of the council, a cable released by Wikileaks says.

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One month after the formation of the inclusive government, Air Zimbabwe which had reportedly entered into various agreements with other airlines, was reported to be a drain on the government.

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The leader of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Arthur Mutambara said Zimbabwe’s opposition leaders were smarter than the Australians and the Americans.

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President Robert Mugabe yesterday called for peaceful harmonised elections asking the people to emulate what they did in the national referendum in which they voted peacefully for the country’s new constitution.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said yesterday Zimbabwe was celebrating its 33^rd independence anniversary as a happy nation because it had approved a new constitution that set new ground rules and a new value system under which its people wanted to be governed.

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Didymus Mutasa was listed as one of the 14 Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front senior officials who should be placed on United Nations sanctions because of his activities to undermine democracy.

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Four years ago Air Zimbabwe chief executive Peter Chikumba told United States embassy officials that the national airline was at a crossroads. After ten years of disastrous financial mismanagement, the airline had become an enormous drain to the government’s coffers, requiring continuous transfusions of working capital from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa might have cost former Attorney-General Sobusa Gula-Ndebele his job when he was Minister of State Security. Gula-Ndebele tried to prosecute Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa for allegedly trying to dissuade witnesses from testifying in an assault case against Mutasa.

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A lawyer who was representing 12 Dutch farmers whose land had been seized by the Zimbabwean government said that getting compensation would be very challenging because it was difficult to identify assets owned by the Zimbabwean government overseas.

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