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Seven years ago, Movement for Democratic  Change leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, was brought for trial on high treason charges.  He was accused of having plotted to assassinate President Robert Mugabe. The…

Diplomatic life must be very exciting. United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray in his weekly summary of events on Zimbabwe in November last year reported that his arrival had been delayed because of an accident involving an Air Zimbabwe flight to Bulawayo. The aircraft struck a group of five warthogs and veered off the runway, destroying some of the runway lights. But what was more interesting about the cable is that Ray appeared to be worried that the government did not comment on the fate of the warthogs.

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The United States and German ambassadors to Zimbabwe have predicted that ZANU-PF will become irrelevant once Mugabe goes.  But the demise of Mugabe and ZANU-PF has been on the cards…

The succession plot continues to thicken. But while Zimbabweans and the international community are engrossed in succession plots, President Mugabe and his lieutenants could be seeking a constitutional solution to…

ZANU-PF will become irrelevant as soon as Robert Mugabe leaves the scene, either through death or retirement, the United States and German ambassadors to Zimbabwe agreed at a meeting in December last year. The ambassadors said it was therefore important to identify the next generation of the country’s leadership and begin the process of influencing them.

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This was our lead story seven years ago. While at the time the arrogance referred to the ZANU-PF government, it now appears that arrogance is creeping into Movement for Democratic…

President Robert Mugabe is fixated on land reform and sanctions and is almost trance-liked in discussing these subjects, United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray said in his cable to Washington the very day he presented his credentials to Mugabe on December 9 last year.

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James McGee, the United States ambassador to Zimbabwe during its turmoil from 2007 to 2009, seemed to be observed with the country’s diamonds from Marange because he believed they were being used to prop up Mugabe’s patronage system.

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In the 2008 parliamentary elections ZANU-PF and the MDC were tied neck to neck. Though it has its pitfalls, most people believe that the current inclusive government is the best…

Central bank governor Gideon Gono was cut out of the Marange diamonds when the military moved in in November 2008, according to one of the United States embassy cables released by Wikileaks. One of Gono’s chief buyers Tendai Makurumidze, known as Gonyeti, was arrested and three of his vehicles were seized. Trading which had been dominated by Gono who was bringing freshly printed Zimbabwe dollar notes shifted to foreign currency.

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