The Insider

Nominations for the 2008 elections revealed signs of potential trouble for the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front as several candidates who were defeated in the primary elections registered as ZANU-PF candidates to oppose the party’s official candidates.

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President Robert Mugabe is keeping his lieutenants in line because he has dossiers on their illegal activities which he can use to get them arrested should they challenge him.

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Movement for Democratic Change Mutambara faction secretary general Welshman Ncube said on 29 January 2008 the Southern African Development Community sponsored talks between the MDC and the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front were dead.

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South African President Thabo Mbeki who was the chief negotiator in Zimbabwe was going to push for international observers in the 2008 elections because he was concerned about their credibility.

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Japan, which was under pressure from countries like the United States not to invite President Robert Mugabe to the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, said it wanted to hear the African voice and did not distinguish between Mugabe and other African leaders.

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The United States embassy in Tokyo said it would press the Japanese government not to invite President Robert Mugabe to the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD).

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The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions called on the co-ministers of Home Affairs Giles Mutsekwa and Kembo Mohadi to resign over the way the police had handled a strike my workers at Shabanie Mine in September 2009.

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