The Insider

Econet boss Strive Masiyiwa, who was also one of the advisors of Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai, said although talks between the MDC and the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front were continuing, there was slow progress because ZANU-PF negotiators Patrick Chinamasa and Nicholas Goche did not have sufficient authority to resolve fundamentals issues.

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TheUnited States embassy in Harare recommended that Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa’s wife, Monica, and their four children should be added to the United States financial sanctions list because of the flawed 2005 elections and the brutal Operation Restore Order.

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The United States embassy in Harare requested that Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa’s four children, two daughters and two sons, should be added to the United States sanctions list because of the flawed 2005 elections.

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Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa announced that the Delimitation Commission had established new boundaries for the 2005 constituencies but the Movement for Democratic Change which was not represented on the commission expressed concern that the commission could have tampered with the boundaries.

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Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa rejected an amendment to the Electoral Act requiring the registrar-general to provide electronic copies of the voters’ roll to all parties arguing that electronic rolls could be tampered with.

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Prime Minister and Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai has fought for democracy in Zimbabwe since he became secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions in the 1980s. It was in that role that he was catapulted to the MDC. He has the highest number of Wikileaks cables released on Zimbabwe. But whether it was for better or worse, only the public can decide. Here are all the 726 cables that we have published. The cables might be boring to some but we felt we needed to publish them, not to embarrass Tsvangirai because we do not even believe their accuracy. We published them because this is what shaped US policy on Zimbabwe. Next we are moving on to the big man, Robert Mugabe.

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Movement for Democratic Change president Morgan Tsvangirai refused to meet South African President and negotiator Thabo Mbeki and President Robert Mugabe at State House in July 2008 though his counterpart Arthur Mutambara was attending because he thought this would be misconstrued as recognition of Mugabe as president.

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President Robert Mugabe topped the list of 14 Zimbabwean politicians and security chiefs that the United States wanted to be included on the United Nations sanctions list which it was to table on 9 July 2008.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front went ahead with the presidential elections runoff despite the pulling out of the Movement for Democratic Change because it wanted to negotiate with the MDC from a position of strength.

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The United States pushed its allies to support a resolution that would have allowed military intervention in Zimbabwe by the United Nations not later than 3 July 2008.

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