The Insider

Despite the stalemate following the signing of the Global Political Agreement which was to usher Zimbabwe’s government of national unity, the South African government showed no inclination at all to force President Robert Mugabe to step down.

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Two members of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, the coordinator for Harare province Broderick Takawira and a driver Pascal Gonzo, were abducted from their Harare offices on 8 December 2008.

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Jestina Mukoko, the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, which monitors delivery of food assistance and violence throughout the country, was seized from her home at 5am on 3 December 2008 by armed men driving unmarked vehicles.

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David Chapfika was one of the rising stars within the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, the Young Turks, who were supposedly meant to transform the party. He rose first to chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee and then deputy Minister of Finance and fell from grace as deputy Minister of Agriculture. There are 11 cables on him. Here they are:

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More than 100 Zimbabweans were deported from the United Kingdom in the past three years but a much larger number of over 900 left voluntarily during the same period, though all did not return to their home country, the British government said yesterday.

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Movement for Democratic Change cabinet ministers pressed all principals, President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara, to resolve all outstanding issues and report back within a week.

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Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett who was facing charges if terrorism, banditry and illegally possessing firearms had his trial date set for October 13.

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The Movement for Democratic Change was in danger of losing its parliamentary majority because of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s strategy of engineering criminal convictions against MDC legislators.

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The director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, Jestina Mukoko, told United States embassy officials that the military and war veterans were targeting local election observers in rural areas that were previously controlled by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front but had voted for the Movement for Democratic Change in the March 2008 elections.

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