The Insider

Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga has been one of the most vocal women’s leaders in Zimbabwe. She started off as an activist before joining the Movement for Democratic Change. She was also vocal in Parliament rising to the powerful post of chair of the Public Accounts Committee. When the party split in 2005 she opted to join the Arthur Mutambara faction where she was elected deputy secretary-general. She lost in the 2008 elections but found her way into the cabinet of the inclusive government. There are 32 Wikileaks cables on her. Here they are.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front chairman John Nkomo was elected chair of a special committee to look at who would eventually succeed President Robert Mugabe.

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Minister of Water Sam Sipepa Nkomo says when he met Vice-President Joice Mujuru privately, as she was a former Minister of Water, she was critical of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and supported Movement for Democratic Change programmes to liberalise the economy and expand political space.

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Former Glen Norah legislator Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga was elected one of the top women in the Arthur-Mutambara faction of the Movement for Democratic Change at its first congress.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell described former Movement for Democratic Change deputy secretary Gift Chimanikire as uninspiring and not well-regarded.

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Manicaland was a hotbed of opposition to President Robert Mugabe because of the several sins he had committed against the people of the province and his shifting of power to Mashonaland at the expense of Manicaland.

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John Nkomo, who was national chairman at the time and was regarded a close Mugabe ally, reportedly approached African National Congress of South Africa secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe for help to ease President Robert Mugabe out of power.

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Clerk of Parliament Austin Zvoma was forced to terminate the United States government funded support to Zimbabwe’s parliament which was being channelled through the State University of New York.

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John Nkomo is one of the political survivors from the former Zimbabwe African People’s Union. His rise within the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front has always been viewed with suspicion. He was reportedly too close to President Robert Mugabe. Rumours even said he was related to Mugabe through his brother Albert. Despite all the odds he rose first to national chairman and then vice-president of the party, the highest post any former ZAPU official has ever held. There are about 130 Wikileaks cables on him. Here are the first 102.

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Former Glen Norah legislator Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga said Chinese merchants were fuelling the currency black market and were using the Chinese embassy’s diplomatic pouch to send their earnings back home.

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