The Insider

Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube said negotiations with the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front were going on well on paper but a “paradigm shift” by President Robert Mugabe was critical to the success of the negotiations and Mugabe had to indicate by his “body language” that he wanted change.

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The United States embassy asked its government to add Environment Minister Francis Nhema’s wife Louise Nkomo to the United States sanctions list.

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The two Movement for Democratic Change negotiators, Tendai Biti for the Morgan Tsvangirai faction and Welshman Ncube for the Arthur Mutambara faction, disagreed on sanctions on the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front with Biti urging more pressure while Ncube encouraged an easing of the sanctions.

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At least seven United States citizens were likely to lose their properties under the government’s land reform programme according to a cable released by Wikileaks.

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South African President Thabo Mbeki who was the principal mediator in the Zimbabwe crisis forced the Movement for Democratic Change factions into agreeing to constitutional amendment number 18 to pave the way for the 2008 harmonised elections because he wanted an election that could not be disputed.

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Movement for Democratic Change vice-President Thokozani Khupe brought laughter to the house at a time when tensions between the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the MDC were quite high when she said Zimbabwean families were divided between ZANU-PF and the MDC, between ZANU-PF and ZAU-PF, and between the MDC and the MDC.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front wanted elections by March to take advantage of the divided opposition according to the secretary-general of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Welshman Ncube.

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African Consolidated Resources which was declared the legal owner of the Marange diamonds before the decision was rescinded by the same judge a year later said it was still holding back on its legal case hoping that something beneficial might materialise.

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The secretary-general of the Morgan Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, Tendai Biti, who was regarded as Tsvangirai’s de facto number two, told United States embassy officials that his party had no chance of winning the 2008 elections because it did not have any money to campaign.

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Publisher Trevor Ncube said the secretary-general of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Welshman Ncube, who is now the leader, was extremely bright but he was not a politician.

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