Several Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front senior officials, including Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo failed to attend Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s launch of his 100-day plan to revive the country’s economy.
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The former mayor of Harare Elias Mudzuri who was suspended from his post by Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo told United States embassy officials that Chombo was trying to undermine the Movement for Democratic Change by persecuting him so that he could seize control of municipalities that the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front could not win through the ballot.
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The United States was interested in the land issue in Zimbabwe because some of its citizens lost land to the government without any compensation even though in some cases the citizens had bought the farms after the government had declared no interest.
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Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi has maintained his image of “Mr Clean” as there are only three Wikileaks cables that mention his name. He is not a principal actor in any of them and two of them have to do with cabinet reshuffles. The only cable that seems taint his name is the one about corruption in the procurement of fuel when he was Energy Minister.
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Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi, who is one of the longest serving cabinet ministers, was identified way back in the 1980s as one of the leading contenders to succeed President Robert Mugabe.
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This is the question most Zimbabweans are still asking more than a month after the former army commander died in as blaze at his farm-house in Beatrice. Mujuru was a war hero, a powerful political player in Zimbabwe but what has been amazing is the saintly image that he was accorded after his death. We reproduce here an article by Robert Rotberg of the World Peace Foundation. This is not an endorsement of the contents of the article. Our aim is to allow our readers to see the other side. The article has been reproduced with permission from Think Africa Press and hope it will stimulate debate about Mujuru’s death.
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Former Financial Gazette and Daily News writer Sydney Masamvu became one of the most sought after political analysts on Zimbabwe when he joined the International Crisis Group and then the Institute for Democracy in Africa. He was not only adept at getting information but was also cross-trading that information with top officials of the South African government and the United States embassies in Harare and Pretoria. Here is a complete list of his shenanigans.
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South Africa is interested in stability in Zimbabwe and not in democracy United States embassy officials in Zimbabwe said in the run-up to the 2008 elections.
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We have added seven more cables which cite former journalist and political analyst Sydney Masamvu. Things brings our tally to 25, leaving 14 more cables to be published over the weekend barring any technical challenges.
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