The Insider

Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa defended the move by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation to deny advertising and news coverage to the Movement for Democratic Change saying the international coverage that the MDC received favoured the party.

(75 VIEWS)

Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front negotiators Patrick Chinamasa and Nicholas Goche said President Robert Mugabe was prepared to accept a Kenyan-type of government of national unity under which the president would be ceremonial while the prime minister had executive powers.

(57 VIEWS)

Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa challenged the Movement for Democratic Change to prove that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was responsible for the violence in the run-up to the presidential elections run-off of 2008.

(55 VIEWS)

The Zambian government was upset by Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa’s accusation that President Levy Mwanawasa’s actions on Zimbabwe were part of a regime change.

(135 VIEWS)

Movement for Democratic Change spokesman Nelson Chamisa said President Robert Mugabe could not drag the whole country into harmonised elections just because he lost because what was in dispute was the position of the president.

(135 VIEWS)

Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa was one of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front big wigs to lose the 2008 parliamentary elections.

(43 VIEWS)

The United States used its embassy’s political and economic section or the internet to gather data on people that it intended to add on to the Zimbabwe sanctions list.

(137 VIEWS)

Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa was listed as one of the senior Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leaders who could face prosecution for political violence.

(57 VIEWS)

Emmerson Mnangagwa was reported to be one of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leaders who wanted the Global Political Agreement, signed on 15 September 2008 with the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change, to collapse.

(142 VIEWS)

Welshman Ncube who was secretary-general of the Mutambara faction of the Movement for Democratic Change at the time told United States embassy officials that Arthur Mutambara had a fragile ego and was not experienced enough to handle harsh criticism.

(60 VIEWS)