The Insider

The United States urged the European Union to expand its sanctions on Zimbabwean individuals to include everyone that was on its own list and welcomed the EU’s decision to include central bank governor Gideon Gono.

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President Robert Mugabe surprised most people at the funeral of former Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa when he said Mwanawasa was a frank and honest man. But he probably meant it.

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Members of Parliament jeered and heckled President Robert Mugabe when he addressed the first parliament in which his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was no longer in control.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGhee in August 2008 that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and President Robert Mugabe were so weak that he intended to start his own party.

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Movement for Democratic Change secretary for presidential affairs Gandi Mudzingwa told United States embassy officials that the party was working closely with civil society to foment protests over the government crackdown on the informal sector.

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Commercial Workers Union of Zimbabwe president Lucia Matibenga who was also first vice-president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions was ousted as president of CWUZ but she said the coup had been carried out by three staff members who had been fired for financial malfeasance and Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front activists.

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Allegations of financial mismanagement at the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions way back in 2005 were brushed off as the work of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front trying to change the leadership of the labour movement to replace it with one sympathetic to the ruling party.

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Speculation that an overwhelming ZANU-PF win in the parliamentary elections, would lead ZANU-PF to moderate its stance toward the opposition were dashed off soon after the 2005 elections which the party won by a two-thirds majority.

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Movement for Democratic Change acting Elections Director Lucia Matibenga said MDC polling agents had been harassed during the 2005 parliamentary elections.

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