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President Robert Mugabe told several high ranking United States officials, including ambassador Tom McDonald, that he was not going back on the land issue.

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Themba Mliswa has made headlines over the past two decades, first as a sports coach, then as a businessman and farmer and now as he tries to enter into politics. There are however only two Wikileaks cables on him. Here they are:

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Former Harare mayor Elias Mudzuri’s lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said Mudzuri planned to surround himself with security guards and resist eviction from the mayor’s official residence after the High Court upheld his suspension.

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The Daily News which had become the nation’s biggest daily before it was banned in 2003 reported on 9 July 2003 that 3 000 Movement for Democratic Change supporters had marched through the streets of downtown Harare carrying placards criticizing South African President Thabo Mbeki and attempted to gather at Africa Unity Square.

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Former Harare mayor Elias Mudzuri reported for work for two days although he had been arrested on the first day and told not to report for work because he wanted to publicise the lack of rule of law in Zimbabwe to the African Union summit that was being held in Maputo, his lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said.

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Harare lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa filed an application with the High Court on May 21, 2003 seeking to compel Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi to return of expelled journalist Andrew Meldrum to Zimbabwe.

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Lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa who was representing American journalist Andrew Meldrum convinced immigration officials that it was the State and not her client who should have filed an appeal with the Supreme Court so Meldrum had a right to stay in Zimbabwe.

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Outspoken critic Eddison Zvobgo, who was a lawyer, advised Movement for Democratic Change mayor of Harare Elias Mudzuri to file a petition with the High Court charging that Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo had overreached his authority because Chombo had no reasonable grounds for suspending him as mayor.

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Elias Mudzuri, who was mayor of Harare at the time, was released after two nights in jail when his lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa obtained a High Court order instructing police to produce him in court and make clear the charges against him.

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The legal community was concerned about the appointment of Godfrey Chidyausiku as Acting Chief Justice because if he was appointed Chief Justice he would be in a position to help President Robert Mugabe remove Supreme and High Court judges and replace them with judges who were compliant with Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.

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