The Insider

Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa was one of the major obstacles to the rule of law in Zimbabwe because he was close to President Robert Mugabe and was a political partisan rather than an independent lawyer.

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The history between the African National Congress of South Africa and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was not as close as people think, South Africa’s High Commission to Zimbabwe Zola Skweyiya said.

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Co-Ministers of Home Affairs Giles Mutsekwa and Kembo Mohadi said they worked well together perhaps because they were both ex-military and as a result, their ministry was functioning smoothly.

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President Robert Mugabe cannot fire central bank governor Gideon Gono because he knows where the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front skeletons are buried.

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Most of the 32 people that were abducted in October 2008, including activist Jestina Mukoko, were released on bail less than a month after the formation of the inclusive government.

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Harare magistrate Gloria Takundwa ruled that Jestina Mukoko and FidelisChiramba should remain at Avenues Clinic for examination and treatment until both the prison doctor and their own doctors deemed them fit to return to Chikurubi prison.

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Tendai Biti, who had been fighting against the formation of inclusive government since the signing of the Global Political Agreement on 15 September 2008, was named the country’s Minister of Finance and described his job as the worst in the world.

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The leader of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Arthur Mutambara told world business leaders that they must now listen to Zimbabweans and all the sceptics must now shut up and support what the Zimbabweans wanted.

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Despite the apprehension and uncertainty that surrounded the national referendum on Zimbabwe’s new constitution, more than three million people voted for the new constitution and less than 200 000 against it.

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