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Roy Bennett said the mass stay-away that was organised by the Movement for Democratic Change was a success, but it suffered from organisational problems because the party had funded two separate groups which ended up competing against each other.

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The Member of Parliament for Chimanimani Roy Bennett and his wife Heather were among several Movement for Democratic Change supporters who were arrested as violence and intimidation mounted during the run-up to the rural council elections.

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Roy Bennett, who was Member of Parliament for Chimanimani at the time, told United States embassy officials said that although the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front strategy was intimidation rather than elimination, certain hard-line elements within the party could be very unpredictable.

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I sparked a storm two years ago when I was asked to make a presentation on Journalism and Non-Governmental Organisations at the African Investigative Journalism Conference at Wits University two years ago.

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Though one of the winners in the 2008 elections, Silvester Nguni seemed to have been brought into the new government as an afterthought because he was not among the 15 ministers that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was allocated under the Global Political Agreement.

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Silvester Nguni lost out when he was appointed Minister of State in Vice President Joice Mujuru’s office. This was a huge climb down from Minister of Economic Development.

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Silvester Nguni survived the purge by President Robert Mugabe when he dismissed most of the government ministers who had lost in the 2008 elections to make room for the inclusive government.

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Silvester Nguni, the former Cottco boss, said he would turn around the country’s agricultural sector in six months if he was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the new government.

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Silvester Nguni was one of the winners in the 2008 elections where big heavyweights in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front where clobbered by Movement for Democratic Change candidates.

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Silvester Nguni was promoted from Deputy Minister of Agriculture to Minister for Economic Development, but the United States embassy would have wanted him to be promoted to Minister of Agriculture.

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