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President Robert Mugabe and a handful of senior Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front officials, excluding security chiefs, set aside their political animosities to pay their respects in person at a memorial service for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife Susan.

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It was a rare week in Harare as the funeral of Susan Tsvangirai united politicians from both the Movement for democratic change and the Zimbabwe African National Union- patriotic Front.

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The South African government paid Zimbabwe $100 million a month for civil servants salaries to maintain peace in the run-up to the 2010 World Cup according to a cable released by Wikileaks.

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Namibia said it wanted to look at the diamonds issue in Zimbabwe from a Kimberley Process perspective and did not want to be diverted by political issues.

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Namibia’s deputy Minister of Mines and Energy Bernhardt Esau said Zimbabwe was going to be his primary challenge when his country was elected to chair the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.

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African Consolidated Resources chief Andrew Cranswick told United States ambassador Charles Ray that Mbada, one of the joint-venture partners in the Mrange diamonds, could produce gem quality and industrial diamonds worth over $1.6 billion a year. And it could increase this production 10-fold.

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A group of men attempted to break into the house of Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s office Gorden Moyo but left after he threatened to shoot them.

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Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gonohad become the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s poster boy for corruption and financial mismanagement, former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee said barely a month after the swearing in of the inclusive government.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was expected to attend President Robert Mugabe’s lavish 85th birthday party in what was believed to be an attempt to strengthen their long-frayed relationship.

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President Robert Mugabe has been at the helm of the country since February 1980. During the first decade he was revered and honoured as one of Africa’s foremost leaders. His star started fading during the second decade. In the third decade he became one of the most hated leaders in the world, sometimes only second to Saddam Hussein. But he has survived it all and is into his fourth decade as leader. Our initial search showed that there are 756 cables on him. Here are the first 503.

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