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Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo fired Harare’s first publicly elected mayor Elias Mudzuri but did not give any reasons except that this was a result of an investigation into Mudzuri’s conduct as mayor and that the President had directed him to vacate his office and house within seven days.

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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo made a last minute bid to broker talks between the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change just before the 2003 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting but he made very little progress.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan was not impressed by the Movement for Democratic Change’s RESTART programme describing it as “broad in scope but short on specifics”.

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The British parliament is to debate British policy on Zimbabwe today.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai was arrested after organising a successful stay-away in which between 80 to 95 percent of the shops were closed.

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Police arrested four Members of Parliament belonging to the Movement for Democratic Change and 28 other MDC officials in three weeks at the beginning of 2003 as the government intensified its intimidation campaign against the opposition.

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Movement for Democratic Change legislator, Tendai Biti, a lawyer who had won several court cases for the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions when MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai was secretary general, told United States embassy officials that he did not expect the MDC to win any legal challenge to the 2002 presidential elections but this had to “be carried out in any case”.

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Joseph Chinotimba, the self-styled commander of farm invasions, rose from nowhere in 2000 to become a hero and one of the most feared people in the white farming community and the business sector. Mention of his name alone was bound to send farmers going for cover and businessmen to bow down to workers’ demands. There are 30 cables that mention his name and here they are.

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The country’s two major labour federations the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and the Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions did not only have different profiles, one closer to the Movement for Democratic Change and the other to the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, but they even had different themes for the My Day celebrations in 2005.

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The secretary general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions Wellington Chibebe asked for assistance from the United States embassy in Harare to enable him to attend the International Labour Conference in 2002 and also for US assistance to mobilise support for the ZCTU’s official delegate status.

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