The Insider

Mozambique opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama was against any power sharing agreement in Zimbabwe and offered to call President Robert Mugabe and encourage him to step down.

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President Robert Mugabe denounced the United States and Britain for committing genocide in Iraq but all senior US government officials had vacated as per instructions during his speech leaving only a note taker.

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President Robert Mugabe told the United Nations general assembly that those who were proposing sanctions on Zimbabwe in the United Nations Security Council were insane.

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Former Malawi President Bakili Muluzi said President Bingu wa Mutharika was likely to become a worse dictator than Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.

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Lucia Matibenga has been considered one of the most powerful women within the Movement for Democratic Change. She has only been eclipsed by Theresa Makone, wife of Prime Minister and MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s special advisor Ian. But observers believe Matibenga has more grassroots support than Makone because of her trade union background. She led the biggest affiliate of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, the Commercial Workers Union, to which another powerful but more dignified Paurina Mpariwa belonged. There are 24 cables on Matibenga, currently Minister of the Public Services. Here they are.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leadership in Masvingo was parcelling out the Save Valley conservancy ahead of the appointment of a Movement for Democratic Change governor.

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Commercial Workers Union president Lucia Matibenga exaggerated the membership of her union to gain votes so that she could be elected first vice-president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions in 2006.

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Labour politics in Zimbabwe is dirty and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions’ current leadership is undemocratic, selfish and controlling.

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The United States embassy in Harare which has always had a keen interest in the labour movement in Zimbabwe carried out a two-part analysis of the labour movement barely two months after the formation of the inclusive government.

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