The Insider

Vice-President Joyce Mujuru was working behind the scenes with the Movement for Democratic Change, former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee said but added that it was not clear whether this was because of new found reformism or it was just a tactic against Emmerson Mnangagwa.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGhee said Agriculture Minister Joseph Made was still burying his head in the sand in terms of agricultural production after his crop forecasts differed vastly with those of the US Agency for International Development.

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Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara told a visiting United States congressional delegation led by Donald Payne that he felt betrayed because he had encouraged Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to join the inclusive government because he thought President Robert Mugabe would stick to the commitments he made in the Global Political Agreement.

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Former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee said First Lady Grace Mugabe “appeared to have aged significantly, looking much older than forty-four and much thinner than she appeared in recent photographs” when she attended a function in honour of visiting Swazi King Mswati III in June 2009.

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Botswana’s Foreign Minister Mompati Merafhe told United States ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice that there was a need to “strengthen the hands of change” in Zimbabwe while accepting that for now President Robert Mugabe would not disappear from the scene.

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Samuel Sipepa Nkomo made his name as chief executive officer of the Mining Industry Pension Fund. He bankrolled several commercial projects including in his home town of Bulawayo. He rose to become chief executive officer of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, publishers of the Daily News which rose to become the country’s biggest circulation daily before it was closed down in September 2003. He chose to remain with the Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change when the party split in 2005 and was rewarded with the post of Minister of Water Resources when the inclusive government was formed in 2009. There are eight cables that mention his name and here they are:

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Armed police raided and shut down the Daily News offices on 25 October 2003 after the paper had published a limited edition of the paper following an administrative court ruling in its favour.

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Zimbabwe has been implicated as one of the 54 countries that were involved in assisting the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States in torturing individuals who were suspected of being involved with Al Qaeda following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in Washington and New York.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee took advantage of a meeting between President Robert Mugabe and congressman Donald Payne to ask Mugabe about the fate of an American-owned property in the Save Valley Conservancy that was under threat of being acquired by the government.

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