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Econet’s local chief executive Douglas Mboweni had to assure United States embassy officials in Harare that the country’s biggest mobile phone network was not going to lose its licence after the state media had indicated that the network owned by Strive Masiyiwa, who also owned of the Daily News, could lose its licence.

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Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe chairman Strive Masiyiwa was confident that his paper, the Daily News, would be back in matter of weeks.

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Exiled Zimbabwean businessman Strive Masiyiwa was reportedly wanted for questioning by the police after the closure of his paper, the Daily News, in September 2003.

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“We have a classic case here in which the prey has become the predator.” This is the opening sentence of a cable from the United States embassy in which officials were reporting about the lawsuit filed by the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, publishers of the Daily News, against Information Minister Jonathan Moyo.

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First Lady Grace Mugabe always makes good copy. This even applied to the Wikileaks cables. Though our initial search indicated that she was cited in 85 cables, when we read…

South Korean construction firms, many based in South Africa, were extensively involved in construction projects with the First Lady Grace Mugabe.

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Brigadier General Herbert Chingono, Inspector General for the Zimbabwe National Army, and Major General Fidelis Satuku, Director General for Policy and Personnel, Zimbabwe Defence Forces, took a huge risk when they talked to United States ambassador Charles Ray and the United States embassy defence attaché on 5 and 6 January last year.

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We now have 250 Wikileaks cables on one page and are continuing to update the link because we have so far published nearly 300 cables in full. We are also…

Movement for Democratic Change senator Obert Gutu who is also the Deputy Minister of Justice was suspended from the party for his comments about the party leader Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. But not all he said about his leader was negative. Although our initial search showed that there were four cables that mentioned his name, when we went through the cables we discovered that only two were really about him.

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After going through every cable on Vice-President Joice Mujuru we have now discovered that there are in fact 35 cables that mention her name. We have now published all 35 and you can read them here.

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