The Insider

The legal community was concerned about the appointment of Godfrey Chidyausiku as Acting Chief Justice because if he was appointed Chief Justice he would be in a position to help President Robert Mugabe remove Supreme and High Court judges and replace them with judges who were compliant with Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.

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Doug Taylor-Freeme told a United States embassy official that Temba Mliswa was working with attorney-general Johannes Tomana to seize farms that were still in white farmers’ hands for a list of 200 Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front bigwigs.

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Supreme Court Judge Nicholas McNally was emboldened to stay on after receiving a flood of supportive calls from around the world including the Vatican, lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa told United States embassy officials.

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A farmer, who said he was relatively young, healthy and was at the prime of his life, said he could not continue farming in Zimbabwe because of war veterans’ leader Joseph Chinotimba and new farmer Temba Mliswa.

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The United States embassy provided an insight into Jestina Mukoko and her Zimbabwe Peace Project when it nominated her for the Secretary of State’s Award for International Women of Courage.

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Iden Wetherell has been one of the longest serving editors at the Zimbabwe Independent, or Alpha Media as it is now called. He has stuck it out even when the country went through its worst crisis. Wetherell is believed to be the author of the long-running column-Muckraker. There are 10 cables on him. Here they are:

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The general-secretary of the General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe, Gertrude Hambira, went into hiding when she learnt that a team of armed men in masks had broken into her home, put a gun to her husband’s head and demanded to know where she was.

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The Counselling Services Unit, a non-governmental organisation that provided medical care to victims of torture and human rights abuses, told the United States embassy that its office was being monitored continuously by Superintendent Peter Magwenzi.

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Iden Wetherell, who had then become group projects editor of the Standard, said nothing would change until the government put an end to the poisonous atmosphere of violence and fear that it perpetuated.

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