The Insider

A badly beaten Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai refused to receive treatment unless his supporters who had also been assaulted by the police were allowed to receive treatment as well.

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The advisor to the Morgan Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Jameson Timba said the party was going to capitalise on the death of one of the party activists Gift Tandare to mobilise its supporters.

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The United States State Department supported a day-long business forum that was held at the Celebration Centre in Harare and was attended by about 300 business executives.

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The chairman of the Association of Trust Schools Jameson Timba said President Robert Mugabe was not aware that the proposed Education Bill that had already been passed by Parliament and was awaiting his signature to become law would force many religious schools to close.

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Jameson Timba, who was chairman of the Association of Trust Schools at the time, said he was going to appeal to President Robert Mugabe’s catholic upbringing to persuade him not to sign the Education bill which gave the government powers to regulate fees at private schools.

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The United States embassy was disappointed with the Utete Commission report on the land reform programme because it was not as explosive as the report by Flora Bhuka which the government had refused to release.

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United States embassy officials in Harare wanted former Masvingo provincial governor Josiah Hungwe to be removed from the United States sanctions list because he had provided the embassy with useful information in the past and was now on the “outs” within the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.

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At least three documents claiming to be audits on the controversial land issue were doing the rounds in early 2003 warranting the United States embassy to issue a cable which among others had a hall of shame in which top Zimbabwe African National Union –Patriotic Front officials who had more than one farm were named and shamed.

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Zimbabwe’s women legislators united under the Zimbabwe Parliamentary Women’s Caucus to cooperate across party lines on gender issues.

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