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South Africa’s Minister for International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane has made headlines for calling President Robert Mugabe “the crazy old man” but what seems to have gone unreported is that her host United States ambassador to Pretoria Donald Gips seems to have thought very little of her strong statements on Zimbabwe and Mugabe.  In the comment to his cable following his meeting with the minister on November 2, last year Gips wrote: “The Foreign Minister made strong statements on Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe, but our sense is that her department does not have the lead within the SAG (South African government) on the Zimbabwe agenda.”

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Wikileaks yesterday released 11 cables on Zimbabwe bringing to 13 the cables it has so far released. It says it has more than 2 500 cables on Zimbabwe alone. The…

Four prominent Zimbabwean businessmen living in South Africa discussed with United States officials ways to ease President Robert Mugabe out of power and replace him with a “technocratic” Prime Minister who would run the country and get it back on its feet.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai last year requested Western governments to help bring about change in Zimbabwe because progress by the inclusive government had been too slow. He held a meeting with ambassadors of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and a representative of the European Union on December 24 and told them that he needed their help because ZANU-PF was now using a strategy of reciprocity, using western sanctions as a cudgel against the MDC, according to the latest cables released by Wikileaks.

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The international community’s concern that Zimbabwe is a threat to the region is unfounded because most of the countries in the Southern African Development Community can take care of themselves.

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Baffled! Yes, the Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association has a membership for religious healers and prophets. Here is a story we did about this nearly 20 years ago. We have…

Harare lawyer Jonathan Samukange has been offered 600 000 shares valued at 60 000 pounds sterling in African Consolidated Resources (ACR), a London-listed company that is locked up in a dispute with the government over the ownership of the Marange diamonds.

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For more than a decade now there have been calls for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to go?  Indeed, one is tempted to agree because after 30 years in office he…

Zimbabwe’s properties in Cape Town which a German bank and evicted white farmers wanted to attach to pay off part of their debts with the Zimbabwe government have been abandoned and are now occupied by vagrants.  Though the properties were meant for the consulate none of them is registered as a property which qualifies for diplomatic immunity.

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A South African High Court recently ruled that a German bank and evicted white farmers could auction one of the properties in Cape Town that belonged to the Zimbabwean government. But it could not sell two others because they enjoyed diplomatic immunity. Here is the judgment in full.

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