The Insider

United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell said after the February 2007 cabinet reshuffle, central bank governor Gideon Gono was increasingly acting as the de facto Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.

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The International Monetary Fund mission chief Sharmini Coorey said that the governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Gideon Gono was the worst banker in the world by far.

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The 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 609. 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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The government made several payments to service providers of Air Zimbabwe but this failed to rescue the airline which was forced to stop operations in January 2012.

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Air Zimbabwe, which resumed flights last week after a 10-month break, will collapse again unless the government stops meddling and allows the national carrier to operate as a business entity.

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Movement for Democratic Change secretary general Tendai Biti filed a US$500 000 defamation suit against The Herald for claiming that he was plotting to oust Morgan Tsvangirai as party president.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee told Prime Minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai that he was concerned about the continued detention of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) employee Frank Muchirahondo and if he was not released this would be the first issue that he would officially raise with Tsvangirai after he was sworn in.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono ambushed everyone when he slashed three zeros from the country’s currency on 31 July 2006 and said everyone should change the old bearer’s cheques within 21 days or they would become garden manure.

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President Robert Mugabe was prepared to repeal repressive laws like the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Public Order and Security Act to get a loan of about $500 million from South Africa in 2005.

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Four months after signing the Global Political Agreement, it was apparent that the formation of an inclusive government was the only game in town for the three major political parties in Zimbabwe otherwise the country would plunge into another Somalia.

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