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Lands and Agriculture Minister Joseph Made warned white commercial farmers not to sabotage the land reform programme by removing equipment such as irrigation equipment, tractors and farm vehicles from that farms that had been compulsorily acquired.

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The Commercial Farmers Union came up with a plan under which donors were going to provide soft loans to resettled farmers while the commercial farmers were to provide technical support in exchange for an end to their harassment and the illegal occupation of their farms but this was rejected outright by Agriculture Minister Joseph Made.

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Former Finance Minister Simba Makoni, who was a member of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front politburo, said the top political organ was dysfunctional.

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Former Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Welshman Ncube and party spokesman Paul Themba Nyathi told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan that growing factionalism within ZANU-PF was an offshoot of a concerted effort by Solomon Mujuru, Simba Makoni, and other members of an internal anti-corruption committee to bring down Emmerson Mnangagwa.

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Former Finance Minister Simba Makoni told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan that President Robert Mugabe had never wanted to accommodate the Movement for Democratic Change.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono, who some said had become the Minister of Finance and Trade and Industry all on one, bragged that former Finance Minister Simba Makoni asked him at a private lunch how he got away with demanding twice as much as Makoni had in 2002- costing him his job.

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What is it that Zimbabwean journalists want to write that they cannot write? I was asked this question by a colleague who was a journalist during the liberation struggle but is now retired. Honestly I could not find an answer.

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Two bishops from Manicaland Trevor Manhanga and Patrick Mutume told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan that Manicaland had never followed the ZANU-PF line or voted for the ZANU-PF programme when given a choice.

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Joseph Made has been Minister of Agriculture on and off since 2000 when he was appointed to President Robert Mugabe’s government as one of the technocrats meant to revive the country’s economy. But Made has been accused of destroying the country’s agriculture. The question that remains unanswered up to today is why Mugabe has kept him up to now. Could Wikileaks provide the answers? According to Wikileaks Made spent 17 years in the United States and the dissertation for his PhD was on land reform. Does he know more than we are told? There are more than 80 cables on him. Here is the first batch.

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Trade and Industry Minister Nkosana Moyo told dinner guests at his home from both the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change that land and Agriculture Minister Joseph made was incompetent.

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