The Insider

The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority had too high expectations that the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa would bring an influx of tourists to Victoria Falls, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

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Didymus Mutasa, considered to be the most senior Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front official from Manicaland, may have outsmarted Women’s League leader Oppah Muchinguri by getting her replaced as governor by Mike Nyambuya, according to a cable released by Wikileaks.

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Former Air Zimbabwe chief executive Peter Chikumba said airline bosses were not likely to support the move by the United States to have 100 percent pat-down searches for passengers.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front deputy director for external affairs Itai Mach held a meeting with a political officer from the United States embassy in Harare at the party headquarters on 5 November 2003, according a cable released by Wikileaks.

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President Robert Mugabe and his 59-member delegation are reported to have taken an Air Zimbabwe plane to attend the Copenhagen climate change summit leaving passengers planning to travel to London to fend for themselves.

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There was a lot of excitement when legislators from the Movement for Democratic Change attended President Robert Mugabe’s speech to Parliament on 22 July 2003 but United States embassy officials questioned the sincerity of ZANU-PF.

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The arrival of United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray was delayed by a day after his flight from Johannesburg on a South African Airways flight was cancelled because of a freak accident at the Harare airport.

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President Robert Mugabe’s Independence Day speech in 2003, in which he encouraged open discussion of the succession issue within ZANU-PF councils, opened the floodgates of speculation.

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 In the words of Peter Chikumba, Air Zimbabwe chief executive, the national airline was on life support in the Intensive Care Unit. Although the wholly government-owned flagship air-carrier of Zimbabwe has laid-off 30 percent of its workforce since February 2009 and had significantly reduced service, the airline still operated on a US$1.4 million monthly deficit.

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