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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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IDASA analyst Sydney Masamvu was very sceptical about the agreement of the Movement for Democratic Change and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front on Constitutional Amendment 18 because he felt the MDC had given “everything” to ZANU-PF and had received virtually nothing in return.

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The serialisation of the Wikileaks cables involving former journalist Sydney Masamvu has gone viral. Genuine visits to The Insider website as measured by Google have increased 15-fold over the past 24 hours.

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Former Zimbabwean journalist Sydney Masamvu has attracted a lot of attention following revelations that he was working closely with the United States embassy in Pretoria and was providing the embassy with impressive insights and analysis.

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International Crisis Group analyst Sydney Masamvu told United States embassy officials in South Africa that when Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono came to South Africa to discuss a bailout, Gono told him that Mugabe had given him free rein to discuss the loan.

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