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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front chairman and Lands Minister John Nkomo was too timid to assert himself and was leaving hardliners, Information Minister Jonathan Moyo and Agriculture Minister Joseph Made, to run the land reform programme, United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan said.

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The co-chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Constitution Paul Mangwana berated war veterans and told their leader Joseph Chinotimba to “ shut up and stick to business” when war veterans tried to disrupt a training session of a thematic committee.

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The United States embassy said the arrest of Finance Minister Chris Kuruneri for externalising foreign currency was not the answer to the country’s problems because he was a moderate who had spoken against a proposal by hardliner Minister of Agriculture Joseph Made.

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The prosecution of legislators from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change, which the party claimed was aimed at overturning its majority in the House of Assembly, was a futile exercise because eight of the 10 Members of Parliament from the smaller faction of the MDC were solidly behind the MDC-T.

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Parliamentary and Constitutional Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga said the Movement for Democratic Change was still safe despite the arrests and convictions of its legislators.

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Civil society complained before the constitution making process started that the process was not people driven despite assurances from Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga.

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The battle for Kondozi Farm is reported to have pitted Minister of Agriculture Joseph Made and the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority against a partnership of black and white Zimbabweans reportedly aligned with Vice President Joseph Msika and a host of local chiefs.

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Though the responsibility of lands had been removed from Agriculture Minister Joseph Made and handed over to John Nkomo, evictions resumed at a faster pace under Nkomo who had been hailed as a moderate.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai asked for food assistance from the United States, though Agriculture Minister Joseph Made had predicted that Zimbabwe would have enough food.

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Eric Matinenga was a prominent lawyer before being appointed Minister of Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs. Interestingly he has represented people from the two different political divides- Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change and Leo Mugabe, a former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front legislator who is also President Robert Mugabe’s nephew. There are 26 Wikileaks cables on him. Here they are.

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