The Insider

Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe chief executive Samuel Sipepa Nkomo said workers at the Daily News were not likely to get any salaries after the government closed the paper down and police confiscated its 120 computers.

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Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, the chairman of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, said the editor of the Daily News, Geoff Nyarota, was fired for supporting a 10-day strike that had crippled the publication of the paper for nine days.

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Gorden Moyo first made his name as a publicity secretary of ZAPU2000 but he rose to fame as the director of Bulawayo Agenda. It was largely because of his work at Bulawayo Agenda that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai appointed him his special advisor. He brought Moyo in to represent the interests of civic society but he was not able to mobilise the funds that the Movement for Democratic Change expected to flow in from donors. Moyo was demoted from Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office to State Enterprises and Parastatals. There are only nine cables that mention his name. Here they are:

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee was not amused when Finance Minister Tendai Biti told him that he was working well with President Robert Mugabe.

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Botswana’s ambassador to the United Nations Charles Ntwaagae said he was concerned about Zimbabwe’s fragile power-sharing agreement because President Robert Mugabe remained in the driver’s seat despite President Ian Khama’s continued call for new elections.

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Former Economic Planning Minister Elton Mangoma told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGhee two months after the formation of the inclusive government that President Robert Mugabe was playing a conciliatory and constructive role in cabinet. So, though the Movement for Democratic Change ultimately wanted to see him go, it had no desire at that time to push him out.

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President Robert Mugabe was looking for a graceful exit, on his own terms, that preserved his legacy, Norway’s deputy director general for Southern and Western Africa in the Foreign Office, Kare Stormark, said just over a month after the formation of the inclusive government.

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President Robert Mugabe said Zimbabwe was not going to bow down to donors because the conditions they were setting were their way of making Zimbabweans their slaves.

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Rio Tinto, which owns the Murowa Diamond Mine in Zvishavane, lobbied the Namibian-led Kimberley Process team that had been sent to Zimbabwe to investigate human rights abuses, to produce a white-washed account of the violence in the Chiadzwa diamond fields, a cable released by Wikileaks says.

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