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Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said the government intended to amend the Electoral Act to give the Electoral Supervisory Commission the explicit responsibility for the recruitment, training and deployment of election monitors.

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High Court Judge Yunus Omerjee told United States embassy officials that President Robert Mugabe and his advisors had shaped the judiciary in their own image with Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa as the mastermind.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee that there was a one-in-one-thousand chance that the accident that killed his wife Susan less than a month after he assumed office was an intentional act.

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The United States embassy said though the full extent of President Robert Mugabe’s assets was not known, they were rumoured to exceed US$1 billion in 2001, the majority of which were likely to be invested outside Zimbabwe, according to a cable released by Wikileaks.

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Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa proposed in 2001 that the Electoral Supervisory Commission should have the sole responsibility for carrying out voter education in the country.

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President Robert Mugabe appointed three more judges to the Supreme Court bringing the total to eight.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front legislator and chair of Parliamentary Legal Committee Eddison Zvobgo walked out of a marathon debate of the Broadcasting Services Bill and the Political Parties Finance Bill because he was afraid that he might be forced to vote against his own party and his own adverse reports on the two pieces of legislation.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in his inaugural address to Parliament urged the international community to observe Zimbabwe’s efforts and progress and move towards a lifting of sanctions.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front parliamentarians including Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa rejected a report by Parliament’s Settlement Committee which criticised the government’s fast-track land resettlement programme and called on the government to implement the programme in a transparent manner in accordance with the laws of the country.

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United States district judge Andre Davis who was part of an International Bar Association delegation that visited Zimbabwe in 2001 described Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa as bright and gracious but added that he was a “liar of extraordinary ability”.

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