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David Chapfika, chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Budget and Finance, was involved in facilitating matters for the collapsed ENG Capital Asset Management, according to the United States embassy.

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David Chapfika, who was chairman of the Parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee in 2003 when cash was so short that supermarkets were selling it to business, said there was no need for anyone to carry huge sums of money because all the money belonged to the government anyway.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Members of Parliament, Phillip Chiyangwa, David Chapfika and Saviour Kasukuwere used their positions in the parliamentary committees as a platform for partisan purposes.

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Eddie Cross was one of the founding members of the Movement for Democratic Change and had been its policy advisor up to now. There have, however, been questions about his business capability after he failed to revive the Dairy Marketing Board and the Cold Storage Commission. His own business has not been much of a success either. Cross was one of the cabinet ministers appointed to join the inclusive government but was removed to make room for Joel Gabuzza. There are 11 cables on him. Here they are.

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Progress in the formation of an inclusive government following the singing of the Global Political Agreement was hampered by the fact that the Movement for Democratic Change now had three power centres.

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President Robert Mugabe and his key supporters hungered for the power and luxury that came from Zimbabwe’s resources and were holding Zimbabweans to ransom as a sacrifice to their avarice.

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The International Republican Institute country director for Zimbabwe Djordje Todorovic said the Movement for Democratic Change was a movement and not a political party and was likely to fall apart as soon as President Robert Mugabe was gone.

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Roy Bennett, who had earlier said the Movement for Democratic Change would only participate in a presidential election run-off if there were United Nations observers, changed his mind a month later and was upbeat about the election.

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Movement for Democratic Change advisor Kathi Walther told a United States embassy official in Pretoria that MDC treasurer, Roy Bennett, was now against a government of national unity and described him as more “emotional than rational”.

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Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett told the acting Australian High Commissioner to South Africa, Jane Lambert, that the MDC would only agree to a presidential election run-off if the United Nations observed the elections.

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