The Insider

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai told diplomats that the Movement for Democratic Change had pulled out of the government because the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was taking him for a ride.

(70 VIEWS)

The Movement for Democratic Change’s pull out from the government in October 2009 was all a façade aimed at wringing concessions from the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front and getting the sympathy of the Southern African Development Community.

(40 VIEWS)

The United States will maintain contact with Vice-President Joice Mujuru because she might become the next president if President Robert Mugabe leaves the scene before elections.

(67 VIEWS)

The Commercial Farmers Union was prepared to accept a US$20 billion compensation package to end the land dispute in Zimbabwe which had rocked the country for more than a decade but Agriculture Minister Joseph Made felt that US$1.5 billion was more than enough.

(223 VIEWS)

Zimbabwe Peace Project director Jestina Mukoko and seven others and two-year-old Nigel Mutemagau were held and denied bail at the end of 2008 after being accused of banditry and terrorism in connection with an alleged plot to train armed insurgents in Botswana.

(165 VIEWS)

Lawyers representing the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project Jestina Mukoko urged High Court judge Alphus Chitekunye to compel the State to investigate and arrest her captors.

(103 VIEWS)

Jestina Mukoko and her Zimbabwe Peace Project were relatively unknown until she was abducted and detained in 2008 and charged with terrorism. She had made her name as a broadcaster at the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation but had gone underground. Now she regularly makes headlines as an activist. There are more than 30 Wikileaks cables on her. Here is the first batch.

(36 VIEWS)

Finance Minister Tendai Biti told a United States embassy official that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai should take a tougher stance on President Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front because Mugabe was tired.

(65 VIEWS)

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said President Robert Mugabe was a tyrant who had ignored democratic principles and become isolationist because of his belief that the West had shunned him due to his land reform programme.

(45 VIEWS)