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Zimbabwe did not want United States or British election observers because they applied double standards against the country, Didymus Mutasa who was the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front secretary for External Affairs at the time told US embassy officials at his office at the party headquarters.

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With the introduction of licences for companies to trade in foreign currency, Air Zimbabwe started demanding in November that it no longer accepted payment for regional and international air fares in Zimbabwe dollars.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa said eight years ago everything was normal in Zimbabwe and anybody who thought otherwise should have his head examined.

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This was the headline of the Daily News in the run-up to the 2002 presidential elections after Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front Secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa said the party would not cede the reins of power for any reason.

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It looks like Air Zimbabwe was hobbling all over in 2008 as the country’s economic continued to plunge. It inked a deal with Iran for five weekly flights to Tehran.

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With inflation reported to be around 531 billion percent, the national airline Air Zimbabwe was allowed to charge business class fares in forex in October 2008 to raise funds for spares and fuel.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was in a slow, irreversible decline. It had no ideas and no programme other than to proclaim its liberation credentials. But President Robert Mugabe was the glue that held the party together.

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The Movement for Democratic Change disengaged from the government in 2009 out of frustration with the Zimbabwe African National-Patriotic Front’s intransigence but it had no Plan B, according to the United States embassy officials.

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After reading Michael Moore’s book: Stupid White men, I felt I could write a similar book entitled Stupid black men. But then I thought that would be too wide. Why not narrow it down to Stupid Black Zimbabwean Men. At least I knew my country better. Where he wrote an open letter to former United States President George Bush junior, I felt I would write an open letter to President Robert Mugabe.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s political advisor Gorden Moyo said without President Robert Mugabe there would be chaos as hardliners within the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front wanted to scuttle the Global Political Agreement.

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