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The Supreme Court clipped Information Minister Jonathan Moyo’s wings when it declared unconstitutional section 6 of the Broadcasting Services Act that gave the minister unfettered power to veto the granting of a license by the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe, as well as the requirement to have only one national radio and television station in addition to the public broadcaster, Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.

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War veterans demonstrated in front of Home Affairs Minister John Nkomo’s offices after police evicted hundreds of their colleagues from four farms near Harare.

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Former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front chairman, John Nkomo, who was Minister of Home Affairs at the time, told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Tom McDonald that the United States should let Zimbabwe resolve the land issue on its own.

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The Movement for Democratic Change was in a catch-22 situation when it began to control the country’s major urban centres.

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Movement for Democratic Change president Morgan Tsvangirai had a very simple solution for Zimbabwe’s problems nine years ago.

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Dubai-based Rani Investment intends to sell its shareholding in the River Ranch Diamond Mine near Beitbridge to the government. It appears that this has nothing to do with indigenisation. The company has just failed to recapitalise its operations.

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The United States embassy in Harare said President Robert Mugabe saw himself as the Fidel Castro of Southern Africa and was on a crusade to secure his place in history as the black Zimbabwean who brought land back to his people and fought imperialism.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change had totally different motives for wanting to negotiate, ostensibly to end the political and economic crisis in the country according to the United States embassy.

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President Robert Mugabe told the United Nations that Zimbabwe did not enjoy criticising the United States and Britain. The criticism was based on sound, fundamental principles.

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John Nkomo is one of the political survivors from the former Zimbabwe African People’s Union. His rise within the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front has always been viewed with suspicion. He was reportedly too close to President Robert Mugabe. Rumours even said he was related to Mugabe through his brother Albert. Despite all the odds he rose first to national chairman and then vice-president of the party, the highest post any former ZAPU official has ever held. There are about 130 Wikileaks cables on him. Here is the first batch.

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