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The United States embassy said the government was hyping supposed dividends from its relationship with China, but even Beijing was getting disenchanted with Zimbabwe’s abysmal business environment and economic mismanagement.

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President Robert Mugabe’s delegation to the United Nations general assembly in 2006 was 10 more people than in 2005 and included his son Bellarmine Chatunga. Unlike the previous year’s list, the 2006 list had arrival and departure dates.

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David Coltart of the Mutambara-faction of the Movement for Democratic Change was the odd one out when he became one of the few top leaders from the party to have a constituency of his own when he was elected senator for Kumalo.

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Bulawayo legislator David Coltart told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGhee that he believed that Dumiso Dabengwa would split off from the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front before the 2008 elections and help the Movement for Democratic Change to win seats in Matabeleland and parts of Mashonaland where he had a following.

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The subsidiary of an Ohio, United States, company knowingly bust US sanctions on President Robert Mugabe and his deputy by supplying them with packaging material and when asked to sign an undertaking not to break the financial sanctions the managing director said he would rather resign.

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Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika described President Robert Mugabe as “a true democrat in every sense of the word” because he had unified Zimbabwe’s two liberation forces.

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Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika told civil society in Malawi that he was going to urge President Robert Mugabe to undertake reforms during his visit to the country following criticism over his naming a highway in honour of the Zimbabwean leader.

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Zimplats, the Impala Platinum-owned mining company, was prepared to accept a 30 percent empowerment ratio but the 51 percent that the government wanted with no compensation was a deal breaker.

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Businessman Billy Rautenbach, who has been linked with several businesses involving top politicians in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, was reported to have gone into business with former English cricket player Phil Edmonds whose company was involved in a dispute over oil deals in Sudan.

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Most of the new senators elected when the upper house was reintroduced were ruling party hacks in office only to accumulate a salary and government-provided luxury cars which were going to cost the taxpayer US$4.5 million according to United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell.

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