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United States Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer told Mozambican President Armando Guebuza that President Robert Mugabe could be pursued for prosecution if he continued using violence against or even killing opposition leaders and members.

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Emmerson Mnangagwa is one of the most feared people in Zimbabwe. Once described as the Son of God because he was believed to be the logical successor of President Robert Mugabe, his political star has been rising and falling over the past three decades. He is still considered a presidential contender and is reported to have been virtually running the country since 2008 through the joint operations command. He is reported to be unpopular within the party but he is so powerful that no one really knows how true this is. There are over 200 cables on him. Here are the first 100:

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Bulawayo legislator David Coltart urged the United States to put pressure on the international community especially the Commonwealth to put pressure on President Robert Mugabe to restore the rule of law in the country.

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Movement for Democratic Change Bulawayo legislator David Coltart told United States embassy officials that President Robert Mugabe’s real goal behind the land reform programme was to destroy commercial agriculture in order to eliminate what the President believed was the most important base of financial support for the MDC in Zimbabwe.

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The United States embassy in Harare suggested that Emmerson Mnangagwa’s three daughters should be added to the sanctions list in response to the flawed March 2005 elections and the brutal Operation Restore Order.

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Agriculture Minister Joseph Made is reported to have given “short-shift” to a white farmer who had managed to “get his foot in the door” with him and told him that white farmers should finally get the message that they were no longer welcome in Zimbabwe.

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Coca-Cola Communications Director Sherree Gladys Shereni told United States embassy officials that no economic or social reforms would take place in Zimbabwe while President Robert Mugabe was still in power.

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Agriculture Minister Joseph Made was one of the few government ministers who survived President Robert Mugabe’s purge on ministers who had lost their parliamentary seats in the 2008 elections as he reshuffled his cabinet in a move that was viewed as making room for the Movement for Democratic Change.

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Farm Mechanisation Minister Joseph Made was one of the big wigs from the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front who lost the election in 2008 resulting in the party being beaten for the first time since independence.

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Several Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leaders, including Emmerson Mnangagwa, were reported to have instructed their local organisers not to use intimidation to elicit votes in the 2005 elections because they had realised that it did not pay.

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