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South Africa’s ambassador to the United Nations Dumisani Kumalo strongly opposed the move by the United States to get the United Nations to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe arguing that “Europeans” wanted to install Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai as president of Zimbabwe.

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Botswana was one of the first African countries to publicly declare that it did not recognise President Robert Mugabe’s victory in the 2008 elections run-off from which Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai had pulled out because of violence.

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Libya’s Secretary for African Union Affairs Ali Treiki criticised Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai for seeking refuge in the Dutch embassy in Harare in response to safety concerns rather than in a neighbouring African country, noting, disapprovingly, that the opposition leader was seen as very “pro-Western”.

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Webster Shamu who left Zimbabwe as a disc jockey but returned home a war veteran now known as Charles Ndlovu has had a very intriguing political career. He has survived corruption scandals to rise first to a deputy Minister and then to a fully fledged Minister. Shamu is believed to be close to President Robert Mugabe though some reports have linked him to the Emmerson Mnangagwa faction. There are 27 Wikileaks cables that mention his name. Here they are.

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Former Daily News editor Geoffrey Nyarota was upbeat about the coming back of the paper following the appointment of a new media commission and said the paper would kick off with a print order of 50 000.

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The Safari Operators Association of Zimbabwe has questioned the veracity of a story that was published by The Insider on 15 October in which the association’s Administrative Officer Sally Bown was reported to have listed several hunters as being involved in unethical and marginally legal hunting.

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The United States implored the European Union to include central bank governor Gideon Gono on its sanctions list soon after the 2008 presidential elections run off when it sought to press for a United Nations Security Council Resolution that would allow military intervention in Zimbabwe.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai was aware after the presidential election runoff which he pulled out of that he could not lead any new government.

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Webster Shamu, the Media, Information and Publicity Minister, announced on 30 September 2009 board appointments to the six media-related parastatals which were filled with Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front sympathisers.

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President Robert Mugabe and attorney-general Johannes Tomana refused to meet a three-member International Labour Organisation Commission that had come to the country to investigate labour rights violations.

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