The Insider

Exiled businessman Strive Masiyiwa told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee that at least 25 ZANU-PF MPs were prepared to cross the floor to join the Movement for Democratic Change once the House of Assembly was convened.

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Zimbabwe’s Parliament could not function properly until an agreement was reached on the allocation of ministries by the two key parties, the Movement for Democratic Change and the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front.

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Zimbabwean journalist Jethro Goko is reported to have lobbied South African President Jacob Zuma to be tougher on President Robert Mugabe. At the time Zuma was not yet the country’s president but was president of the ruling African National Congress.

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Movement for Democratic Change chairman Lovemore Moyo was dispatched to Botswana to lobby President Ian Khama to put pressure on President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front to complete negotiations for power –sharing under the Global Political Agreement.

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Exiled businessmen Strive Masiyiwa and Wellington Chadehumbe were privately lobbying the head of the South African observer mission to the 2008 elections Kingsley Mamabolo, who was South Africa’s former ambassador to Zimbabwe.

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Presidential aspirant Simba Makoni said he was ready to meet Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai anytime anywhere for negotiations but Tsvangirai was “too much under the influence of advisors Strive Masiyiwa, Roy Bennett and Melinda Ferris”.

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The chief negotiator for the Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, Tendai Biti, bemoaned that he had been betrayed by the chief negotiator for the Mutambara-faction Welshman Ncube.

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Econet boss Strive Masiyiwa predicted victory for Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change and funded an anti-rigging plan which he hoped would generate enough pressure on Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front’s Robert Mugabe to accept defeat.

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Tsholotsho legislator Jonathan Moyo held the balance of power in Parliament after Movement for Democratic Change chairman Lovemore Moyo was elected Speaker because the MDC-T now had 99 seats against the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front’s 98.

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