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Former Finance Minister Simba Makoni told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell to talk to Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic front secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa to improve relations between the two countries once the election dust had settled.

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President Robert Mugabe was expected to use all resources of his office, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the state to win the 2002 elections and deny the Movement for Democratic Change presidency.

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ZANU-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa told a visiting United States delegation in 2005 that Zimbabwe was “grateful” for sanctions that had been imposed on the country by the United States and the European Union because they had pushed the country to redouble its economic efforts.

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The country’s largest insurance company and institutional investor Old Mutual arranged a deal with then Delta chief executive Patrick Rooney to buy 300 to 400 farms to resettle war veterans and thus break the logjam on the land reform programme.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Secretary for External Affairs Didymus Mutasa’s hopes for nomination as vice-president were quashed when not a single province backed his nomination at the 2004 congress.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Tom McDonald wrote off Environment and Tourism Minister Francis Nhema as one of those new ministers in government who had no political wherewithal or personality to effect real change in President Robert Mugabe’s new cabinet.

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Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front secretary for external affairs Didymus Mutasa and secretary for Information Nathan Shamuyarira were not afraid of the international press, former Finance Minister Simba Makoni told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan.

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South African Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu said President Robert Mugabe was almost a caricature of all things people think black African leaders do.

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Former Defence Forces chief Vitalis Zvinavashe and Speaker of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa are reported to have discussed an exit strategy for President Robert Mugabe with the opposition in 2002 but surprisingly Zvinavashe was tipped as Mugabe’s possible successor when he retired from the army a year later, a cable released by Wikileaks says.

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