The Insider

Lawyers for Tendai Biti secretary general of the Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change lodged 11 complaints against the State for his ill-treatment in jail since his arrest on 12 June.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai told South African President Thabo Mbeki that he was no match for Robert Mugabe as a negotiator on behalf of the Southern African Development Community.

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Zimbabwe was not likely to have credible presidential elections in the runoff planned for 27 June 2008, the director of the Southern African Development Community organ on politics, defence and security affairs, Tanki Mothae, said seven days before the poll.

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The Zimbabwe Election Supervisory Network’s parallel vote tabulation may have helped prevent President Robert Mugabe from “stealing” the 2008 election outright according to a cable released by Wikileaks.

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Emmerson Mnangagwa assumed a virtual presidency role as a member of the Joint Operations Command which was reportedly running the country in the run-up to the presidential elections runoff of 2008, according to a cable released by Wikileaks.

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South African President Thabo Mbeki, who was the main negotiator in the Zimbabwe crisis, allegedly said Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai was a Western puppet “hook, line, and sinker”.

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War veterans and Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front youths were on the rampage countrywide especially in the former ZANU-PF controlled provinces beating up suspected Movement for Democratic Change supporters and forcing them to attend ZANU-PF rallies.

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This seemed to be the message as the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front launched its campaign for the presidential elections run-off which it said President Robert Mugabe had to win.

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Publisher Trevor Ncube told United States embassy officials on 10 April 2008 that he had heard a “most worrisome” rumour that President Robert Mugabe was planning to annul the 29 March elections and call for fresh ones as soon as possible.

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Although South Africa was appointed facilitator for the Zimbabwe talks at the Southern African Development Community meeting in Dar es Salaam on 29 March 2007, it did not publicly announce the meetings of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change. But here is how the talks progressed.

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