The Insider

Former Minister of State for Security Didymus Mutasa, Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi together with other top security officers were sued for $19.2 million by 15 Movement for Democratic Change activists who claimed they had been abducted, detained and deprived of their liberty.

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Although United States embassy officials in Pretoria did not believe that the election of Jacob Zuma as President of the African National Congress would see an immediate change in South Africa’s foreign policy, Idasa analyst Sydney Masamvu believed that Zuma would be “more robust” in his criticism of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.

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Pretty little, apart from the fact that Barack Obama is the President of the United States and Robert Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. Both are black, but one heads the most powerful nation in the world while the other is a pariah that no one wants to be associated with.

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The two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change promised to present a united front to decide whether to participate in the 2008 elections or to boycott them depending on their assessment of whether the elections would be fair or not.

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Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu called German leader Angela Merkel a racist, fascist and a remnant of Nazism after she had criticised Zimbabwe for damaging the image of the New Africa.

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President Robert Mugabe was reported to have toned down his vitriol against the West and the opposition when he addressed the nation on 4 December 2007, four days before he was due in Lisbon for the European Union-Africa summit.

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Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates and Foreign Minister Luis Amado were not going to greet delegates when they arrived for the European Union- Africa summit in Lisbon ostensibly because there were too many delegates but United States embassy officials said this was probably to avoid sahking hands with President Robert Mugabe which could be captured by eager cameramen.

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Southern African Development Community executive secretary Tomaz Salomao said SADC would pull its 14 members out of the European Union-Africa summit, scheduled for December 8-9 in Lisbon, unless European leaders agreed not to single out Zimbabwe for criticism.

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