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The co-ministers of Home Affairs Kembo Mohadi and Giles Mutsekwa were horrified after being shown pictures of police activities at Anglican churches where supporters of Bishop Sebastian Bakare and Nolbert Kunonga were battling for assets of the church.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai won the first round when High Court Justice Yunus Omerjee dismissed the court case seeking to bar him from conducting party business following a follow-out with the pro-senate faction of his party.

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It might not have been his mission, but former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe left the country convinced that the end of President Robert Mugabe’s rule was near.

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The split of the Movement for Democratic Change over participation in senate elections took a nastier turn when the faction led by secretary-general Welshman Ncube filed an application with the court barring party leader Morgan Tsvangirai from continuing to speak for the party.

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Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi was ordered by High Court Judge Charles Hungwe to produce 12 individuals whose whereabouts were unknown to their lawyers.

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Movement for Democratic Change secretary for presidential affairs Gandhi Mudzingwa said party leader Morgan Tsvangirai was going to stand his ground in the intra-party conflict over participating in the senate elections even if this meant driving the party’s current Ndebele leadership away.

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Police violently broke up rallies of the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change in Harare and Bulawayo in defiance of a High Court order.

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Way back in 2003, an opinion poll by the Mass Public Opinion Institute showed that just over half the Zimbabweans polled wanted President Robert Mugabe to go.

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Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi introduced the Suppression of Foreign and International Terrorism Bill on 24 March 2006 which would allow the minister to designate terrorist groups and would impose stricter sentences for terrorists and their facilitators.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell, who had denied the simmering differences within the Movement for Democratic Change for more than a year, continued to hope against hope even after the pro-Senate faction fielded candidates to contest the elections defying an order by party leader Morgan Tsvangirai to boycott the election.

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