The Insider

Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa was said to be the stumbling block to the parliamentary reform programme that was funded by the United States government to bring about a more transparent and inclusive approach to law making, through the establishment of Parliamentary Committees.

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A Zimbabwean woman said to be a niece of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai made headlines when she tried to take over a 70-hectare farm owned by a white farmer in central Zimbabwe.

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The government through Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo decided to appoint metropolitan governors for Harare and Bulawayo to neutralise the influence of the Movement for Democratic Change which by 2002 already had five mayors.

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Zimbabwe still owes Britain£12.2 million for land Rover vehicles that it purchased more than a decade ago, which civic organisations have said the country should not pay for because they were used to repress the people.

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Vice President Joice Mujuru was the only Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front heavyweight who shared the dais with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai when he launched his 100-day plan on 13 May 2009.

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Three government ministers turned up the heat on organisations which they accused of trying to unseat the government.

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We are getting there. 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, more than 800. But whether it was for better or worse, only the public can decide. Here are the first 655. We have 200 more to go and will publish them all before we move on to complete those on President Robert Mugabe who has the second highest. The cables might be boring to some now but we feel we need to publish them, not to embarrass Tsvangirai because we do not even believe their accuracy. We are publishing them because this is what shaped US policy on Zimbabwe.

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Britain told Finance Minister Tendai Biti, two months after the formation of the inclusive government, that he should push the government of national unity to operate according to the agreements made if he wanted to win the confidence of the international community so that Zimbabwe could get aid.

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President Robert Mugabe, who had been under intense attack for his remarks that gays were worse than dogs and pigs, reiterated the same sentiments six years later saying: “When I say gays are worse than dogs and pigs, I really mean it because pigs don’t do unnatural things.”

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The government denied a request by the Movement for Democratic Change to hire a South African lawyer Jeremy Gauntlett to represent party leader Morgan Tsvangirai in his challenge of the presidential election results.

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