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The Movement for Democratic Change was left with no option but to organise mass action to force President Robert Mugabe out after the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leader insisted his party would not participate in inter-party talks until after the courts had ruled on the MDC’s legal challenge of the presidential elections.

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Gideon Gono was at one time the de facto Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. He had become so powerful that he sent shivers through many original founders of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. But he is now a pale shadow of his former self.

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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who was one of the facilitators of the talks between the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change, said the talks between the two parties would continue even if he had to travel to Harare personally to make that happen.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front on 9 May 2002 requested the suspension of talks with the Movement for Democratic Change citing as one of the reasons the MDC’s challenge of the presidential elections which President Robert Mugabe had won in March.

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A Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front legislator Simba Mudarikwa told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray in February 2010 that one of the most important achievements of the inclusive government was the sidelining of central bank governor Gideon Gono.

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Although the central bank no longer has the means to disrupt the economy as it did during Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation, the very fact that Gono is still on the payroll frightens anyone who might consider a financial commitment that lasts more than a week.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti wrote to the United States government to lift sanctions on three banks, the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe, Agribank and ZB Bank and Building Society, to speed up economic reforms.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono approved in record time the sale of 54 percent of Premier Bank to German investors in a deal worth $6 million unilaterally fast-tracking a waiver on the country’s stringent banking and indigenisation laws.

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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s ambassador to Zimbabwe Mawapanga Mwana Nanga said central bank governor Gideon Gono must have been profiteering from his actions because the things that he was doing did not make sense.

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Gideon Gono was at one time the de facto Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. He had become so powerful that he sent shivers through many original founders of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. But he is now a pale shadow of his former self.

(40 VIEWS)