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Zimbabwe sent Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa and representatives from its Geneva Mission to represent the country at the World Conference Against Racism in Dakar.

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A British Member of Parliament Robert Halfon yesterday called for a debate on Zimbabwe to ensure that farmers, including his constituent Timolene Tibbett, who were deprived of their land are compensated.

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Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa is arguably the cabinet minister closest to President Robert Mugabe and is generally perceived to be willing to do whatever the President asks.

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Britain was considering adding state prosecutor Florence Ziyambi on the European Union sanctions list because she appeared to be the favourite for prosecuting high profile political cases.

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Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete said he and Botswana President Ian Khama advised Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai to join the new government because people would see the MDC as refusing to take a role in the government while the country deteriorated.

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Herbert Murerwa has been one of the longest serving members of President Robert Mugabe’s government. He has served as a civil servant, then as a diplomat and finally as a minister. The Harvard-educated Murerwa, who has been Minister of Finance more than once, has been variously described as decent but ineffective and “too much of a gentleman”. There are 53 Wikileaks cables on him. Here they are.

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Zimbabwe has been ranked as one of the four countries in Africa with the highest cases of fraud, according to the findings of the second Africa Fraud Barometer released by KPMG.

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Lands Minister Herbert Murerwa had his sights set on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and would have preferred any other ministry besides Lands, according to commercial farmer Doug Taylor-Freeme.

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President Robert Mugabe is reported to have sidelined the main rivals in his succession battle Solomon Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa giving the two camps only six of the 22 ministerial posts he had squeezed from the inclusive government.

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Herbert Murerwa, one of the senior Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front officials to retain his seat in the 2008 elections, was appointed Minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement when the inclusive government was sworn in in February 2009.

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