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Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett was granted bail by the High Court but the State invoked a section of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act effectively suspending the bail and giving the State time to appeal.

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Roy Bennett was the only ministerial level official not sworn in when President Robert Mugabe swore in the expanded inclusive government which included five more deputy ministers and five more ministers of state who were not agreed upon in the Global Political Agreement.

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Former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell, who was allegedly at the centre of his government’s push to remove President Robert Mugabe, conceded that although his former confidante Jonathan Moyo was now an opponent of Mugabe and his views about the president should be read in that light he was also a shrewd analyst.

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Econet boss Strive Masiyiwa said he did not trust former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo and publisher Ibbo Mandaza because they were both former operatives of the Central Intelligence Organisation.

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Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara was somewhat of a loose cannon. He told a ministerial retreat that the 2008 presidential elections, won by President Robert Mugabe after Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out, was fraudulent.

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The leader of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Arthur Mutambara was a politician without a platform or principles and no one should believe anything that he says.

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Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara told a visiting European Union delegation in September last year that he must not be excluded from any discussions because he was the only one who could shut up President Robert Mugabe. Everyone else was afraid of him.

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Deputy Agriculture Minister David Chapfika was one of the 12 Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front ministers that were fired as President Robert Mugabe cleaned up his cabinet to make way for the inclusive government.

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Several members of the American Business Association of Zimbabwe and companies with United States interest told organisers of a business forum organised by ABAZ in October 2007 that they had declined even the lowest level of sponsorship because of fear of recrimination by the government.

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Divine Homes, a development company believed to be owned by Deputy Finance Minister David Chapfika, took over Gletwyn property in October 2005 and announced its aim to build houses and began constructing roads.

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