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Zimbabwean publisher Trevor Ncube told United States embassy officials on 30 August 2007 that he was so thoroughly disgusted by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change that he believed that only a third way political force could take the country forward.

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Econet boss Strive Masiyiwa does not just seem to be doing well in business, but he has been dabbling a lot in politics. We have found 57 cables in which…

It was not only the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front that was facing a crisis at the end of 2004 because of the so-called Dinyane debacle in which some party members including former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo were allegedly involved in plotting a “smart coup”, but the main opposition Movement for democratic Change was in a dilemma too.

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The Daily News received a short-lived reprieve on 21 January 2004 when High Court Judge Tendai Uchena ordered police to vacate its premises to allow the paper to resume publishing.

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Herald editor for only seven months Ray Mungoshi poured his heart out to United States embassy officials in an hour-long meeting on 27 March 2001 about the daily harassment he was getting from Information Minister Jonathan Moyo.

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We have now uploaded 21 cables on exiled Zimbabwean businessman Strive Masiyiwa as part of our weekend special. There are 57 cables that mention his name according to our initial…

Zimbabwe’s two most successful entrepreneurs, Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless and Nigel Chanakira of Kingdom Financial Holdings, had created a holding company, the Independent Media Group, that had bought controlling shares in Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, the parent company of the Daily News.

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Econet boss Strive Masiyiwa seems to have been dabbling in politics since the formation of the Movement for Democratic Change. But it appears he got more involved when he moved to South Africa. There are 55 diplomatic cables in which his name is mentioned.

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Econet boss, Strive Masiyiwa, was one of the key shareholders pushing for an end to the Kingdom Meikles saga whose acrimonious marriage had turned messy, according to reports in May 2009.

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Econet, the country’s largest mobile phone network, was on an expansion warpath in 2008 growing its subscriber base by 40 percent and increasing market share by 30 percent to 1.2 million subscribers though revenue was down by 30 percent in the first half of the year.

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