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Nathaniel Manheru (the pen name for Mugabe’s spokesman George Charamba) blasted the international media for inaccurately reporting on the situation in Zimbabwe.

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Under headline “It’s time to flush out the Saddams of this world” the March 27 edition of the independent weekly “The Financial Gazette” carried an opinion piece by Sydney Masamvu – the paper’s Assistant Editor – on page 18 in which he hails the ongoing United States-led military campaign to disarmIraq, saying, “The year 2003 should be dedicated to flushing out dictators the world over – in Baghdad, Havana, Jakarta, southern Africa – and send them running.”

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The privately owned weekly Financial Gazette has appointed Nqobile Nyathi, 29, as editor. Nyathi replaces veteran journalist Francis Mdlongwa who led the “FinGaz” from 1997 to 2002.

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Under the headline Martial Law Looms, the August 9 edition of the independent weekly The Financial Gazette carried the following lead article by the paper’s political editor, Sydney Masamvu:

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Uzumba/Pfungwe Member of Parliament Simba Mudarikwa has finally been confirmed as the legislator who likened the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front “to a troop of baboons incessantly fighting among themselves, but coming together to face an external threat”.

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The Congress of Southern African Trade Union has endorsed the mortgage book written by Insider editor Charles Rukuni entitled: How to buy a house for half the price.

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The military is likely to push Emmerson Mnangagwa as leader if President Robert Mugabe dies before a successor is chosen because the securocrats do not like Vice President Joice Mujuru.

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Vice- President Joyce Mujuru was behind Operation Murambatsvina, a clean-up exercise that left more than 700 000 people homeless a few months after the 2005 general elections which the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front had won by a two-thirds majority.

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The United States showered Zimbabwe with praise on its stance on terrorism but that was way back in the 1980s before relations between the two nations soured.

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A Catholic priest for Banket wrote Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front member Philip Chiyangwa urging him to stop the violence in the run-up to the 2000 Parliamentary elections after he had allegedly asked his audience to kill any member of the opposition.

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