The Insider

President Robert Mugabe had to elevate the informal sector department in his office to a fully fledged ministry after the 2002 presidential elections to accommodate Sithembiso Nyoni who had lost in the 2000 elections.

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President Robert Mugabe rewards loyalty and not competence when he appoints his cabinet, a cable released by Wikileaks says.

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Former Minister of State Sithembiso Nyoni was one of the big losers in the 2000 elections who President Robert Mugabe had to accommodate in what analysts said was a cabinet of “place holders” until the presidential elections of 2002.

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President Robert Mugabe told incoming United States ambassador Charles Ray that his predecessor James McGee, and the United States government itself, had sought regime change in Zimbabwe and McGee had become the right hand man of the opposition.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Congress, which had been scheduled for 8 December, but had been postponed, was brought back to allow President Robert Mugabe to travel to Denmark for the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

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Deputy Foreign Minister Nicholas Goche said rural people had voted for land while those in urban areas had voted for jobs in the 2000 parliamentary elections which the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front almost lost winning only 62 seats against the Movement for Democratic Change’s 57.

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The Movement for Democratic Change, which was less than a year old, expected to win between 80 and 85 seats in the 2000 elections which would have catapulted it into power but the United States embassy expected it to win 60 seats.

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ZANU PF has been ruling Zimbabwe with an iron fist for as long as most of us care to remember. I have always had an interest in politics being the son of a politician myself but have always been one of those that have been happy to read other people’s posts with the odd comment here and there but trying to write this has given me a new found respect for those that do it on a constant basis.

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