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ZANU-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa is persistently described as a hardliner in the diplomatic cables that have been released by Wikileaks. The soft-spoken politician is known to be very loyal to President Robert Mugabe. There are 90 cables that mention his name, and so far we have published 36 under his dossier. We intend to publish them all.

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ZANU-PF secretary for external affairs Didymus Mutasa scored another major victory when President Robert Mugabe reshuffled his cabinet in February 2004, reinforcing his influence in Manicaland province.

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A United States senator Jim Inhofe yesterday reintroduced the Zimbabwe Sanctions Repeal Act of 2011, legislation that seeks to repeal the economic sanctions originally imposed on Zimbabwe in 2001 under the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act.

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Britain’s Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Lord Howell of Guildford said on Monday diamonds from Marange have not yet been cleared by the Kimberley Process and should therefore not be traded.

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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 through the cable, we discovered that she was cited in 34. The other 51 cables either mentioned her husband President Robert Mugabe wanting to exit gracefully or Mugabe and some United States official whose first name was Grace.

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President Robert Mugabe seems to have been ill for quite some time. According to a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks, Mugabe was quite ill way back in 2003 and had consulted a United Nations medical specialist.

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At least eight business persons affiliated with mobile phone operators Econet and Telecel were arrested in one week in November allegedly for externalising foreign currency.

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Although dairy farmers had gone largely untouched during the farm invasions of 2000 to 2002, reports in November 2002 said the First Lady Grace Mugabe was one of the high profile people that had started scouting for a dairy farm.

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First Lady Grace Mugabe was reportedly one of the more high-profile beneficiaries of the fast-track resettlement effort. According to a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks the First Lady was reported to have chosen a farm roughly 30 km northwest of Harare which had a new 27-room mansion, valued at over Z$100,000,000 (roughly US $1.6 million), fronted by a 2 hectare “well-manicured garden.”

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United States embassy officials deployed 11 teams to observe elections on March 29 and all reported that voting took place in a calm and orderly manner. Observer teams were generally well-received at polling stations and throughout the different constituencies, including ruling party strongholds, but they were given a cold shoulder in Mt Darwin Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s constituency.

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