The Insider

President Robert Mugabe denied that he had anything against Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett.

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Topper Whitehead was one of the driving forces behind the Movement for Democratic Change campaigns in 2000 and 2002 but there are only two cables that mention his name, both about his key role in trying to expose how President Robert Mugabe stole the 2002 elections. Whitehead was deported in 2006 and could still be playing a key role in the MDC. Here are the cables on him.

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Movement for Democratic Change ministers were growing impatient with President Robert Mugabe’s flouting of the Global Political Agreement, his stripping of Information and Communications Technology Minister Nelson Chamisa of his powers, and his refusal to swear in MDC deputy Minister for Agriculture Roy Bennett.

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The first meeting of the Government Executive Committee which was aimed at ironing out the outstanding issues in the Global Political Agreement failed to take off after Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front participants expressed uncertainty about what was called for in the Agreement and who had what authority.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGhee that Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa was targetting him, Finance Minister Tendai Biti, Economic Planning Minister Elton Mangoma and Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett.

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Mines Minister Obert Mpofu told Parliament that neither the police nor the military had been responsible for any deaths at the Chiadzwa diamond fields.

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Movement for Democratic Change treasurer and deputy Minister of Agriculture designate Roy Bennett was sworn in as a senator but President Robert Mugabe resisted swearing him in as a deputy minister.

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Despite claims that the United States does not support any political party in Zimbabwe, a cable dispatched by former ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee on 16 March 2009, just a month after the formation of the inclusive government, specifically says “it is in our interest to support the Party (Movement for Democratic Change) and reformist ministries in the government that it shares”.

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The Movement for Democratic Change is going to win the next elections because the MDC is a people’s project and the people will protect their project, party secretary general and Finance Minister Tendai Biti said.

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