The Insider

United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell said the shift on the succession debate from Joie Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa to technocrats like Simba Makoni and Gideon Gono was a sign that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was becoming increasingly aware of its lack of popular appeal and its need for external support it if was to reverse Zimbabwe’s economic collapse.

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The vice-president of the Commercial Farmers Union Trevor Gifford told United States embassy officials that commercial farmers were going to remain political footballs in the power struggle between President Robert Mugabe’s potential successors.

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Eddison Zvobgo Junior told United States embassy officials that President Robert Mugabe had no intention of leaving office but the security of his tenure depended on the continued loyalty of the warring Joice Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa factions.

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A member of the Movement for Democratic Change who was arrested, detained and tortured together with legislator Job Sikhala said one of his interrogators, who was visibly drunk, urinated on him and forced him to lie naked in a puddle of urine with a metal bucket over his head as shocks were administered.

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Movement for Democratic Change Member of Parliament Paul Madzore was arrested by police on 12 January 2003 for allegedly assaulting two police officers and was beaten while in custody.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was working secretly on a new piece of legislation that would seal plans for President Robert Mugabe’s succession by recreating the post of Prime Minister for Emmerson Mnangagwa.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell that vice-President Joyce Mujuru had at one time exploded to President Robert Mugabe complaining about perceived slights and asserting her independence from her husband Solomon “Rex” Mujuru.

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Dzikamai Mavhaire, an ally of Eddison Zvobgo and one of the Masvingo kingpins, was brought in to the senate in 2005 probably to divide the Karanga support for Emmerson Mnangagwa who was at the time the main rival of President Robert Mugabe’s heir apparent Joice Mujuru.

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Sekai Holland has been one of the most outspoken and controversial leaders of the Movement for Democratic Change. Even the United States embassy admitted that she was a difficult character. Born Sekai Hove, Holland was the daughter of veteran journalist and nationalist Mike Masotsha Hove, one of the first blacks to be elected to Parliament in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. There are 12 cables on her and here they are:

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Sekai Holland, one of the most outspoken leaders of the Movement for Democratic Change, was included in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s first cabinet in the inclusive government when she was appointed a Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office.

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