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Lawyers for Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai called for his discharge concentrating on the two-witness rule which says that to convict someone on treason charges there must be at least two credible witnesses whose stories independently corroborate each other and describe an overt treason plot.

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United States President George Bush’s backing of South African President Thabo Mbeki as an honest broker who could handle the Zimbabwe crisis left Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai in the open.

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Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Zimbabwe Wilberforce Juta told United States embassy officials in 2003 that there was increasing support for the national chairman of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front John Nkomo to succeed President Robert Mugabe.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front national chairman John Nkomo was not happy with the speech by war veterans leader Patrick Nyaruwata because he had criticised the government in what was supposed to be a solidarity speech.

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The Herald said Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai was demeaning African heads of state at every turn while pandering to European and American leaders like a poodle.

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Thokozani Khupe was virtually unknown outside the trade union movement until the formation of the Movement for Democratic Change in 1999. A year later she was elected Member of Parliament for Makokoba in Bulawayo. She benefitted from the split of the MDC is 2005 and was catapulted to vice-President at the 2006 special congress, and three years later she was appointed the country’s Deputy Prime Minister. There are 24 cables on her. Here they are.

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Movement for Democratic Change presidential advisor Gandi Mudzingwa asked the United States embassy in Harare to arrange a meeting with United States President George Bush’s delegation “at whatever level” during his visit to South Africa which was scheduled for July 8 and 9, 2003.

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Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe was not able to help a white farmer who was being forced off his land despite appeals by the United States embassy on behalf of the farmer.

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Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe told the business sector to get out of the hyperinflationary mindset that had been prevailing in Zimbabwe because of the stability that had been brought about by dollarization.

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Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe lambasted the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front for disrespecting the Movement for Democratic Change when it moved forward the cabinet meeting from Tuesday to Monday to prevent Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai from chairing the meeting in the absence of President Robert Mugabe.

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