The Insider

A freelance journalist, Nkosana Moyo, was escorted by the Central Intelligence Organisation from State House when he tried to record the proceedings of a meeting between President Robert Mugabe and a United States congressional delegation and given a 30 minute lecture about patriotism.

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China is a very aggressive and pernicious economic competitor with no morals and is not in Africa for altruistic reasons. It is in Africa for China primarily.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front said it would not make further concessions to the Movement for Democratic Change until sanctions imposed by the European Union had been lifted.

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The European Union renewed its sanctions on Zimbabwe, one year after the formation of the inclusive government, because of the lack of progress in the implementation of the Global Political Agreement entered into by the three major political parties in Zimbabwe in 2008.

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The United States remained convinced that there would be no real change until there was an election that would bring a reform government to power.

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The South African government was ordered by a Pretoria High Court judge to pay damages to a South African farmer, Crawford von Abo, who had been farming in Zimbabwe for not protecting him from President Robert Mugabe’s land expropriations.

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Sithembiso Nyoni made her name as the founder and director of the Organisation for Rural Associations for Progress (ORAP) in the 1980s. She joined active politics in 1994 when she became a Member of Parliament for Makokoba. She held onto her seat until 2000 when she was defeated by the Movement for Democratic Change candidate Thokozani Khupe. She lost again in 2005 to David Coltart but decided to switch to Nkayi North in2008 and won. She has been Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises on-and-off. There are 13 cables abut her and here they are:

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High Court Judge Ben Hlatshwayo “seized” a commercial farm in Banket in 2002. But First Lady Grace Mugabe liked the farm. It was close to the Mugabe rural home. So she took over the farm in 2009 for her son from her first marriage, Russell.

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Former South African government strategist Joel Netshitenzhe said that the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front had to settle the succession issue before there was real progress in Zimbabwe because every disagreement had much to do with the tension over succession.

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