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Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa said Congolese businessman Kalaa Mpinga was a “political infant” and was like a university student, full of “wild dreams” and ready to riot against anything.

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Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Tom McDonald that foreign observers were welcome to Zimbabwe as they had been for every election since 1980 but when asked for a written invitation he said he could not issue one.

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A former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front legislator for Chimanimani, Mike Mataure, says ZANU-PF Members of Parliament were told by President Robert Mugabe to vote for a constitutional amendment that allowed the government to compulsorily acquire land without compensation to save their necks.

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Mnangagwa, a long-time advisor of President Robert Mugabe on security matters, is reported to have been so disappointed after being appointed Justice Minister that he was considering retiring and going into business.

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Simba Makoni was touted for years as one of the potential successors of President Robert Mugabe. He had everything going for him -age, education, international exposure. But something went wrong in 2008 when he decided to challenge Mugabe in the presidential elections. Rumours say he was pushed to challenge Mugabe with the promise that senior ZANU-PF members would abandon Mugabe to join him, but that never happened. There are more than 160 cables on Makoni. Here are the first 50.

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The reporting of United States President George Bush’s visit to Africa reflected the political divide in the local media with The Herald trashing the visit because Bush was coming to Africa “with dirty hands after his alleged bungling in Iraq”.

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Former Finance Minister Simba Makoni said government ministers were too cowed by President Robert Mugabe to challenge official dogma and did what they thought Mugabe wanted not what worked.

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President Robert Mugabe had embarked on a ruinous path which had seen gross domestic product decline by 35 percent between 1998 and 2002 and there was no prospect for recovery without a sweeping policy overhaul.

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Herbert Murerwa replaced Simba Makoni as Finance Minister though he had no “economic expertise” but had a PhD from Harvard in educational planning.

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Despite President Robert Mugabe’s vigorous insistence that devaluation was dead, Finance Minister Simba Makoni effectively devalued the currency through so-called incentives for tobacco farmers and the duty on luxury goods.

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