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The secretary for Foreign Affairs Willard Chiwewe asked British High Commissioner to Zimbabwe Peter Longworth what it would take to normalise relations with Britain.

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Speaker of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa, who as the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front secretary for administration was in charge of the party’s businesses, was to chair the First National Bank of Congo which had given the ZANU-PF owned First Banking Corporation of Zimbabwe a five-year management contract.

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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 194 cables on him. Here they are:

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Speaker of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Tom McDonald that disruptions to the economy caused by the land reform programme were the cost of redistributing ownership of the land.

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Emmerson Mnangagwa who remained President Robert Mugabe’s point man on Democratic Republic of Congo issues said Zimbabwe was committed to withdrawing its troops from the DRC.

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President Robert Mugabe’s point man in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Emmerson Mnangagwa, told United States special envoy Howard Wolpe that Mugabe had told Kabila to accept Ketumile Masire as mediator because his objections did not constitute sufficient grounds for removing Masire.

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Emmerson Mnangagwa, who the United States embassy in Harare described as ruthless, kept the embassy guessing when he was left of President Robert Mugabe’s new cabinet in 2000.

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Farm invasions by war veterans which were widely believed to be an intimidation tactic by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front to get people to vote for the party continued after the elections which the party narrowly won.

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Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa told United States ambassador Tom McDonald that President Robert Mugabe was likely to go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 11 July but he was not likely to accompany him as he would be attending his daughter’s graduation in London.

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Although President Robert Mugabe wanted to bring his troops back from the Democratic Republic of Congo he was not likely to “fall on his sword to preserve (former Botswana President Ketumile) Masire in the role of facilitator”, the United States embassy said.

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