The Insider

Dumiso Dabengwa, a former politburo member of the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front who left the party to support presidential candidate Simba Makoni, was bitter that his one-time comrade-in-arms Solomon Mujuru never came out publicly in support of Makoni.

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The United States embassy in Harare requested US$3 million a year to sustain democratic forces in Zimbabwe and keep alive prospects for a national democratic revival arguing that this was necessary because President Robert Mugabe had tightened his grip on the country.

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The United States embassy said the government was hyping supposed dividends from its relationship with China, but even Beijing was getting disenchanted with Zimbabwe’s abysmal business environment and economic mismanagement.

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President Robert Mugabe’s delegation to the United Nations general assembly in 2006 was 10 more people than in 2005 and included his son Bellarmine Chatunga. Unlike the previous year’s list, the 2006 list had arrival and departure dates.

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David Coltart of the Mutambara-faction of the Movement for Democratic Change was the odd one out when he became one of the few top leaders from the party to have a constituency of his own when he was elected senator for Kumalo.

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Bulawayo legislator David Coltart told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGhee that he believed that Dumiso Dabengwa would split off from the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front before the 2008 elections and help the Movement for Democratic Change to win seats in Matabeleland and parts of Mashonaland where he had a following.

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The subsidiary of an Ohio, United States, company knowingly bust US sanctions on President Robert Mugabe and his deputy by supplying them with packaging material and when asked to sign an undertaking not to break the financial sanctions the managing director said he would rather resign.

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Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika described President Robert Mugabe as “a true democrat in every sense of the word” because he had unified Zimbabwe’s two liberation forces.

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Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika told civil society in Malawi that he was going to urge President Robert Mugabe to undertake reforms during his visit to the country following criticism over his naming a highway in honour of the Zimbabwean leader.

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Zimplats, the Impala Platinum-owned mining company, was prepared to accept a 30 percent empowerment ratio but the 51 percent that the government wanted with no compensation was a deal breaker.

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