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Movement for Democratic Change special advisor Gandi Mudzingwa told United States embassy officials that local bishops who were trying to get the MDC and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front to the negotiating table had told him that high ranking ZANU-PF leaders were committed to dialogue.

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The Financial Gazette described the government’s proposed move to withdraw passports of Zimbabweans who were opposed to it as a sign of a regime gone berserk and nearing its end.

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The Bulawayo daily, The Chronicle, called on the government to ban rogue non-governmental organisations which were reportedly handing out drought relief food to rural communities claiming it was coming from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.

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Police founds weapons at the house of a Movement for Democratic Change activist’s house at the height of the week-long stay-away that had been called for by the party but they did not claim that the weapons were intended for use during the demonstrations.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said the militias would have to be dissolved in order to minimise the possibility of violence before any new elections could be held.

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Former Home Affairs Minister John Nkomo threatened in 2001 to revoke the passports of Zimbabweans who were campaigning abroad for the imposition of sanctions on Zimbabwe.

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The head of the Central Intelligence Organisation Happyton Bonyongwe told the High Court that he did not hear Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai say he wanted to kill, murder or assassinate President Robert Mugabe.

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John Nkomo, who was Minister of Home Affairs at the time, ordered police to arrest people who were masquerading as liberation war veterans who were going around extorting money from company owners and employees on the pretext of solving long-standing labour disputes.

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President Robert Mugabe has been at the helm of the country since February 1980. During the first decade he was revered and honoured as one of Africa’s foremost leaders. His star started fading during the second decade. In the third decade he became one of the most hated leaders in the world, sometimes only second to Saddam Hussein. But he has survived it all and is into his fourth decade as leader. Our initial search showed that there are 756 cables on him. Here are the first 204.

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When President Robert Mugabe heard that British Minister Clare Short had said that the labour government was not interested in colonial matters and would not honour obligations undertaken by the previous government, including land reform, he said: “If they won’t honour their obligations, we won’t either”.

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