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John Nkomo is one of the political survivors from the former Zimbabwe African People’s Union. His rise within the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front has always been viewed with suspicion. He was reportedly too close to President Robert Mugabe. Rumours even said he was related to Mugabe through his brother Albert. Despite all the odds he rose first to national chairman and then vice-president of the party, the highest post any former ZAPU official has ever held. There are 122 Wikileaks cables on him. Here they are.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai admitted that some Harare city councillors had sold out but he was not sure that they would agree to resign and this had played directly into the hands of Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan said most of the members of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front were suspicious of the US government motives and kept their distance from the Americans out of concern for “political correctness” in their “insecure liberation party”.

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The Movement for Democratic Change candidate for Gutu North in the 2004 by-election Casper Musoni told United States embassy officials that the violence in the constituency was not as bad as was being reported in the independent media.

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The Movement for Democratic Change supported former Air Force chief Josiah Tungamirai, a Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front candidate, when he contested the Gutu-North seat though the party fielded its own candidate Crispa Musoni.

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Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa did not lose everything at the 2009 party congress. Jonathan Moyo who was central to his succession prospects made a “phoenix-like” comeback to the party that expelled him in 2005.

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Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga was one of the hardliners, together with her boss Welshman Ncube, who were against the re-unification of the Movement for Democratic Change.

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About 100 families from Glen Norah, most of them victims of Operation Murambatsvina a year earlier, had their houses and possessions burnt down by municipal police.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front chairman John Nkomo was nominated for the post of vice-president by the party’s central committee.

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Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga has been one of the most vocal women’s leaders in Zimbabwe. She started off as an activist before joining the Movement for Democratic Change. She was also vocal in Parliament rising to the powerful post of chair of the Public Accounts Committee. When the party split in 2005 she opted to join the Arthur Mutambara faction where she was elected deputy secretary-general. She lost in the 2008 elections but found her way into the cabinet of the inclusive government. There are 32 Wikileaks cables on her. Here they are.

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