The Insider

Kembo Mohadi has been Member of Parliament for Beitbridge since 1985. He proved his value to the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front when he retained his Beitbridge seat in the face of stiff challenge from the Movement for Democratic Change and was rewarded with the powerful post of Home Affairs which he has held for more than a decade now. There are 28 Wikileaks cables on him. Here they are.

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A British Minister on Monday refused to disclose information on business transactions of Zimbabwean businessman Billy Rautenbach who has been reported to have close links with President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.

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Judge Charles Hungwe on 14 March withdrew charges against all seven suspects linked to arms caches in Mutare except Michael Peter Hitschmann because the arrests were unlawful.

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A new kindle book offers a new explanation of the 2003 blackout that affected nearly 50 million people in the Eastern United States and Canada.

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Tuition fees at state universities were increased by 500 percent with those at the University of Zimbabwe increasing from Z$6 million to Z$30 million a year while meals went up from Z$1.5 million a semester to Z$21 million.

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The Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa has released a catalogue of corruption cases in Zimbabwe dating back to the 1980s, which is essentially to remind people that they do not forget bad leadership examples for accountability, transparency and integrity in Zimbabwe.

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The Supreme Court threw out Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s application to have it take over his 2002 presidential election challenge from the High Court, where it had languished for years.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell suggested that US organisations should seek ways of camouflaging their support for democracy and governance programme in Zimbabwe because the Zimbabwean government seemed to be tracking these activities.

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Former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell said a day before he left the country that he believed Operation Slash Prices was going to be the final blow for President Robert Mugabe.

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Father Fidelis Mukonori, a confidant of President Robert Mugabe, told United States embassy officials that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leadership around Mugabe lacked the political clout, intelligence, experience or vision to lift Zimbabwe out of the hole they had dug.

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