The Insider

Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai cancelled a planned trip to Washington just before the 2005 parliamentary elections to stop the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front from making political capital out of the visit by accusing him of running off to Washington “to get orders from Bush”.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai told a visiting United States delegation in December 2002 that President Robert Mugabe would not last another six months.

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Bulawayo senator, David Coltart, who was then the Movement for Democratic Change shadow Minister for Justice said police had threatened to resuscitate a two-year old case in which he was accused of discharging a firearm near a public road, a charge which had a fine of Z$2 000 which translated to only 40 US cents.

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A United States Agency for International Development-funded opinion poll conducted by the Mass Public Opinion Institute surprised United States embassy officials when it revealed that people were evenly divided over the fairness of the 2002 presidential poll.

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The Senate yesterday approved the new constitution passing on the mantle to President Robert Mugabe to sign the bill into law and thus pave the way for elections. All 75 senators present in the upper house approved the bill.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai told United States President George Bush that Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front leader Robert Mugabe was determined to take Zimbabwe down with him as he tottered “towards the sunset of his biological and political life”.

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Former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell, the man who was reportedly sent to Zimbabwe to effect regime change, said the effectiveness of demonstrations by the National Constitutional Assembly was questionable because of the non-involvement of other opposition groups.

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The United States should withhold its money if it will be used to destroy democracy and create a dependency on donor funds, the Bulawayo daily, Chronicle, said after the United States threatened to cut aid to African countries for accepting election results in Zimbabwe in 2002.

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There was short-lived relief when Information Minister Jonathan Moyo and Special Affairs Minister John Nkomo appeared to differ on the nationalisation of land eight years ago, but the operations director of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Vitalis Chadenga put the record straight when he said only compulsorily acquired wildlife land would be leased for 25 years.

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