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South African President Jacob Zuma’s daughter Gugulethu married Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Welshman Ncube’s son Bongani in Bulawayo on December 27 in what Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu dubbed “the wedding of the year”.

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Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu was described as an illegitimate minister in an illegitimate state when he announced that the government had drafted Constitutional Amendment number 19 that was to pave way for the establishment of an inclusive government.

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The leader of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Arthur Mutambara said President Robert Mugabe’s regime had betrayed the ideals of the liberation struggle and MDC activists were the true inheritors of the liberation struggle.

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Crisis! What crisis? This was the quote of the week by the United States embassy in Harare in one of its diplomatic cables about the crisis in Zimbabwe as the country’s political leaders tried to get a solution to the country’s political and economic problems, six months after the March 2008 general elections.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front’s campaign theme for the presidential elections run-off in 2008, from which Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out because of violence, was: “100 percent Empowerment: Total Independence.”

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The leader of the pro-senate faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Arthur Mutambara lamented that despite on-going negotiations, little progress had been made by the two factions.

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Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu threatened to revoke the licences of all non-governmental organisations in an attempt to ferret out groups “seeking to force regime change”.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said the leader of the other faction Arthur Mutambara was just a figurehead, the main obstacle to reunification of the two factions was pro-senate secretary-general Welshman Ncube.

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Movement for Democratic Change leaders Arthur Mutambara and Morgan Tsvangirai agreed that the merging of the two factions was the only way forward but they faced stiff resistance from hardliners within their factions.

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The United States embassy in Harare asked that Sikhanyiso Ndlovu’s wife Rose Jaele be added to both the Zimbabwe sanctions and the Zimbabwe financial sanctions lists in response to the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s victory in the March 2005 elections and the government’s Operation Murambatsvina.

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