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Industry and International Trade Minister Obert Mpofu said the government owned Zimbabwe Development Corporation would take over private businesses engaged in economic sabotage.

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Emmerson Mnangagwa is one of the most feared people in Zimbabwe. Once described as the Son of God because he was believed to be the logical successor of President Robert Mugabe, his political star has been rising and falling over the past three decades. He is still considered a presidential contender and is reported to have been virtually running the country since 2008 through the joint operations command. He is reported to be unpopular within the party but he is so powerful that no one really knows how true this is. There are over 200 cables on him. Here are the first 50:

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The United States embassy complained about the expulsion of two members of the International Foundation for Election Systems arguing that they had been assured by Speaker of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa that Zimbabwe would welcome international observers.

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Speaker of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa told a visiting United States senate delegation that complaints that Zimbabwe’s voters’ roll was defective should not be an issue because this could easily be rectified.

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Speaker of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa was on a charm offensive with the diplomatic corps in an attempt to soften the government’s, and his own, image.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front bigwigs were in for a surprise when two Parliamentary committees tabled reports that were highly critical of the government.

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Emmerson Mnangagwa, the government’s point man in the Democratic Republic of Congo, assured the United States embassy in Harare that Zimbabwe would ensure that the DRC remained calm following the assassination of President Laurent Kabila.

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President Robert Mugabe was not going to go gently into that good night of retirement and it was almost impossible to convince him to do so.

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University of Zimbabwe political scientist John Makumbe came to the rescue of the Movement for Democratic Change when the party came under fire for not capitalising on its June 2000 election performance which saw the party winning 57 out of the 120 contested seats in parliament.

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Speaker of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa denied that Zimbabwean troops were involved in any new clashes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Tom McDonald, did not believe him.

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