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Just added to our archives today – ZANU-PF using financial squeeze to keep MPs in line

ZANU-PF has always used money to keep Members of Parliament and party leaders in line. It empowers you, gives you contracts, and when you start giving the leadership problems they remind you: “Just as we can build you up politically and financially, we can shoot you down financially as well. Toe the line.” Could it be doing the same to the MDC legislators? Just have a look at what happened when MPs opposed the awarding of the Harare International Airport tender to a company in which Leo Mugabe had a stake.

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Charles Rukuni

The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.

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