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Emmerson Mnangagwa, for long considered one of President Robert Mugabe’s potential successors, was likely to be more brutal than Mugabe if he became president, a political analyst Brian Raftopoulos, told United States embassy officials in December 2000.

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President Robert Mugabe continued to commander Air Zimbabwe planes for personal use despite the looming collapse of the national airline, reports said.

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President Robert Mugabe is unlikely to give serious consideration to anointing a successor because he believes that he is the only one who can hold the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the country together, this was said by former ZANU-PF legislator Michael Mataure.

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Problems for Air Zimbabwe continued with reports saying the national airline was technically insolvent and was on the verge of collapse, just six months after the formation of the inclusive government.

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The Movement for Democratic Change which almost upset the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front in its first national elections in 2000 by winning 57 seats against ZANU-PF’s 62 was likely to be given ministries that were window dressing or problematic if President Robert Mugabe decided to throw them “cabinet scraps”, former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Tom McDonald said.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti joked that selling Air Zimbabwe might not be such a bad idea as the airline was losing $500 000 a week.

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Andrisson Manyere a freelance journalist who has made more headlines from his arrests than from his journalistic work seems to be doing quite well –moneywise.

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A weekly newspaper, the Financial Gazette, reported that the government was planning to sell 60 percent of the national airline, Air Zimbabwe, for an estimated US$750 million to an undisclosed private operator.

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Amnesty International seems to be in a quandary over its relationship with Zimbabwe. In the 1970s the human rights organisation adopted Robert Mugabe and Didymus Mutasa, among other combatants, as “prisoners of conscience”.

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