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The indigenisation of the Save Conservancy which hit the headlines last month with some European governments threatening to cut aid to Zimbabwe is now new. It was broached eight years ago.

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The manager of Save Conservancy Clive Stockil told United States embassy officials that he had negotiated a deal with then Special Affairs Minister John Nkomo under which the conservancy was to incorporate and include a black-owned firm Traditions as a minority partner.

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The government intended to acquire private nature conservancies, divide the businesses into multiple shares and pass on half the shares to black owners, according to the United States embassy.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee that he intended to request the Southern African Development Community to replace South African President Thabo Mbeki with another chief negotiator.

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Businessman Strive Masiyiwa told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee that the Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai had won the March 2008 presidential elections so any run-off would not recognise this reality.

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The vice-President of the Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Thokozani Khupe described the continued withholding of the presidential results in the 2008 elections and the announcement by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to recount results in 23 constituencies as a “slow moving coup”.

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The people of Masvingo, who are now said to be claiming a stake in the Save Conservancy, made demands for outright grants of ownership and financial concessions from the conservancy owners nine years ago.

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Zimbabwe was only spending US$10per square kilometre on its parks to protect wildlife when the international standard was US$200-250 per square kilometre and South Africa was spending as much as US$6 000.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai and independent candidate Simba Makoni told Southern African Development Community leaders that they did not have problems with results of the 2008 senatorial, parliamentary and local authority elections.

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Private conservancies were not recognised under the Zimbabwe law, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Environment and Tourism Lucas Tavaya told a United States embassy official nine years ago.

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