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President Robert Mugabe, who had been rumoured to be ill or dead, officially opened Parliament on 9 June lambasting the United States for its “shameless refusal” to join international consensus in accepting the results of the March elections in which his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front had won a two-thirds majority.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell that his contacts within the Central Intelligence Organisation had told him that the MDC had won over 90 seats in the 31 March 2005 parliamentary elections.

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A researcher with the Institute of Security Studies said Emmerson Mnangagwa had a better chance of succeeding President Robert Mugabe than Joice Mujuru because Mugabe could never trust Mujuru as she was viewed as too willing to work with the Movement for Democratic Change.

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Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa was appointed to the government’s Diamonds Committee which was set up to respond to concerns raised by the Kimberley Process.

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Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa told Finance Minister Tendai Biti that President Robert Mugabe intended to resign as leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front in December 2009.

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Arthur Mutambara was a firebrand student leader at the University of Zimbabwe. He went on to the United Kingdom to do his PhD and worked for various United States firms and organisations before coming to South Africa where he started his own company. It was while in South Africa that he was approached to lead the pro-senate faction of the Movement for Democratic Change as it was known at the time. Mutambara, it has transpired, was not the first, second, or even third choice. After a dismal performance in the 2008 elections Mutambara became deputy Prime Minister virtually because he was one of the principals to the Global Political Agreement. But he was soon kicked out of the leadership of the party. There are 114 cables on him. Here they are:

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara had agreed to handle the issue of sanctions personally because President Robert Mugabe had introduced a new tactic of reciprocity.

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Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and his chief rival Vice-President Joice Mujuru were appointed to the succession committee which was headed by then party chairman John Nkomo.

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The Mutambara faction of the Movement for Democratic Change will not maintain its 10 seats in the next election a Bulawayo civic leader said.

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Swaziland’s Foreign Minister Lutfo Dlamini said Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara had both rejected a Truth and Reconciliation Commission like that in South Africa.

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