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Mines Minister Obert Mpofu told Zimplats chief executive Alex Mhembere that central bank governor Gideon Gono’s portfolio had grown too big and he was acting like a “quasi prime minister”.

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Indigenisation Minister Saviour Kasukuwere is untrustworthy and a thug, a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks says.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono planned to ask President Robert Mugabe to clip Industry Minister Obert Mpofu’s wings after the disastrous 2007 price blitz but not to fire him as this would have upset the ethnic balance in his cabinet ahead of the 2008 elections.

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The director of the Counselling Services Unit, Frances Lovemore, said Deputy Youth Minister Saviour Kasukuwere was rumoured to be the principal organiser of a hit squad that abducted and assaulted activists from the Movement for Democratic Change.

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The government had created a “parasitic agrarian bourgeoisie” that demanded even more government handouts without a commensurate rebound in agricultural output with the end result being a population with a very few who were filthy rich and the masses who were filthy poor.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front deputy Secretary for Youth Saviour Kasukuwere was among the senior party officials that wanted Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa to be “rubbed out”, Chinamasa’s wife said.

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The names of Environment Minister Francis Nhema, Mines Minister Obert Mpofu, Defence Forces chief Constantine Chiwenga and chief of conservation in the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Vitalis Chadenga “repeatedly resurface in rumours” about rhino poaching- a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks last week says.

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Mount Darwin legislator Saviour Kasukuwere was named in a government land audit as one of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front politicians with multiple farms. He had three.

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The leader of the Progressive Teachers Union, Raymond Majongwe, told United States embassy officials that hundreds of Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front thugs that were involved in the coordinated attacks and intimidation of rural communities were now on the government payroll and were receiving the $100 government allowance that all civil servants were.

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Mount Darwin legislator Saviour Kasukuwere told United States embassy officials that President Robert Mugabe and his cronies must be phased out for the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front to survive.

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