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Former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell said central bank governor Gideon Gono was corrupt to boot.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell six years ago that the First Lady Grace had confided to him that President Robert Mugabe was “out of it” 75 percent of the time and she wanted him to step down.

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This was the title of a cable dispatched by United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell on 28 September 2004. But though he had talked to seven prominent Zimbabwean businessmen, the cable did not say much about how they were doing business except that they were pressing for balance of payment support.

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President Robert Mugabe had to be kept in the dark with changes that his lieutenants wanted to implement to improve the economy being characterised in misleading, Orwellian terminology, according to a cable released by Wikileaks.

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Some unnamed government ministers wrote to the South African power company Eskom and oil company Sasol demanding a cut on all business deals between Zimbabwe and South Africa because they operated businesses that could act as middlemen- one of the cables released by Wikileaks says.

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A United States embassy official in Pretoria expressed doubts that the South African government could ease President Robert Mugabe out of power arguing that he had always outplayed the South Africans.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front legislator for Uzumba/Pfungwe told United States embassy officials that Mines Minister Obert Mpofu was a crook.

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Movement for Democratic Change legislator David Coltart told United States embassy officials that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was trying to frame him for the murder of war veteran Cain Nkala.

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Former Mines Minister Edward Chindori-Chininga has described current minister Obert Mpofu as a crook and a thief.

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Obert Mpofu who was governor of Matabeleland North at the time was named as one of the top Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leaders with more than one farm. He had three.

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