News about Zimbabwe that you can use
African National Congress secretary general Gwede Mantashe said Presidnet Jacob Zuma was going to be more vocal that his predecessor Thabo Mbeki in trying to curb President Robert Mugabe’s deviant behaviour, but the ANC had not seen any evidence to that effect yet.
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The Movement for Democratic Change was prepared to accept the retaining of central bank governor Gideon Gono in return for the firing of attorney-general Johannes Tomana because Tomana was “much more destructive”.
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President Robert Mugabe was stripped of his honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Massachusetts, in a move without precedent in the uiversity’s 145 year history.
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President Robert Mugabe was reportedly put in a fix when Media Information Commission chairman Tafataona Mahoso failed to make the short-list selected by Parliament for the new Zimbabwe Media Commission and the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe.
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The United States wanted Mozambique to become a member of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme so that it could help curb diamond smuggling from Zimbabwe’s Marange fields through its territory.
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United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson expressed concern about President Robert Mugabe’s possible successors and seemed to be only comfortable with Vice-President Joice Mujuru.
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Vice President John Nkomo was of little value to President Robert Mugabe because he was “unquestionably loyal to Mugabe” and had no support from Matebeleland.
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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was supposed to join President Robert Mugabe’s delegation to the United Nations general assembly in September 2009, but it is not clear whether he did so or not.
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A British Broadcasting Corporation correspondent who had been allowed to work in Zimbabwe with her team said the government still wanted to control reporting activities and two known Central Intelligence Organisation handlers were present all the time.
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Finance Minister Tendai Biti told United States embassy officials that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was too preoccupied with the succession of President Robert Mugabe to engage rationally in the political process.
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