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Just added to our archives- Tsvangirai’s trial: Winners and losers

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 Insider wrote a feature about who the winners and losers were in that trial. Tsvangirai was later acquitted. For those interested in the country’s history, we have published the judgment in full. But here was an assessment of the winners and losers. We now have 180 other stories in our archives that were not published on the front page.

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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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