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The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front was reported to have launched “Operation Red Finger” to force people to go and vote in the presidential elections runoff of 27 June 2008 from which the Movement for Democratic Change had pulled out because of violence.

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Former Finance Minister Simba Makoni said the removal of the responsibility for lands from Minister of Agriculture Joseph Made was a positive step because John Nkomo was a much more reliable and moderate person.

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The president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries Anthony Mandiwanza was happy that the land portfolio had been removed from hardliner Joseph Made who now remained Minister of Agriculture and Rural Resettlement and given over to moderate John Nkomo.

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Lands and Agriculture Minister Joseph Made scored a major victory when the Land Acquisition Amendment Act was passed in Parliament legalising all the farms he had compulsorily acquired.

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Newly elected Buhera Member of Parliament Eric Matinenga was released after five days in jail. The magistrate dismissed charges that he paid Movement for Democratic Change youths to perpetrate violence against ZANU-PF supporters.

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The government had drawn up a target list of newly elected Movement for Democratic Change Members of Parliament whom it was to arrest in an intimidation campaign in the run-up to the presidential elections run off.

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The United States embassy said the government had dispossessed 4 000 white farmers of their land leaving only 500 who had entered into arrangements or accommodations with prominent black Zimbabweans but hardliners within the government had started attacking these indigenous dealmakers.

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Minister of Lands, Agriculture, and Rural Resettlement, Joseph Made, announced that two farms in each province would be set aside “for utilization by graduates of the National Youth Training” programme.

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The central bank was turning a blind eye to exporters who were refusing to surrender 50 percent of their export earnings to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe at the official exchange rate which was one-seventh of the market rate.

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Hardliners Joseph Made, Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Chinamasa were left out of the talks between the bishops of Manicaland and President Robert Mugabe to promote dialogue with the Movement for Democratic Change because they would have attempted to sabotage any dialogue, the United States embassy said.

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