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Though often touted as one of the reformists within the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Walter Mzembi was elevated from a deputy minister to Minister of Tourism and Hospitality in the inclusive government.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Member of Parliament for Chivi South Irvine Dzingirai told United States embassy officials that he had closer ties to the Movement for Democratic Change side of Parliament than to the ZANU-PF side.

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Prime Minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai said he would tour the country talking to people about his and his Movement for Democratic Change’s goals and objectives during his first 100 days in office.

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The deputy treasurer of the Movement for Democratic Change, Elton Mangoma, an accountant by profession, wanted to be the new government’s Minister of Finance according to one of the negotiators, Welshman Ncube, secretary general of the smaller faction of the MDC.

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Walter Mzembi, Deputy Minister of Water Resources, told United States embassy officials that opponents to President Robert Mugabe within the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front had “no balls”.

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David Butau, one of former army commander Solomon Mujuru’s top lieutenants, told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell that the reformist element in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was alive and well.

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Masvingo South legislator Walter Mzembi, who was also chairman of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands, Land Resettlement, Agriculture and Water Resources, praised the United States government-funded State University of New York parliamentary programme saying it had done excellent work in developing the potential of the parliamentary committee structure to bring the Executive branch to account.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front legislator Walter Mzembi told United States embassy officials that he had just returned from China as part of a government delegation that had gone to seek financial assistance but China had refused to offer any loans and instead pressed Zimbabwe to reform.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai told diplomats that he was under no illusion that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s intention was to maintain control so the burden of moving the Global Political Agreement forward rested with his Movement for Democratic Change.

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Movement for Democratic Change secretary general Tendai Biti was sceptical about the Global Political Agreement that his party signed with the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front on 15 September 2008 because anything Mugabe touched was poisoned.

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