The Insider

President Robert Mugabe is reported to have allowed investigations into Emmerson Mnangagwa’s alleged corruption to go ahead but ultimately intervened to save him from substantial damning evidence, according to a cable released by Wikileaks.

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United States embassy officials in Harare were confident that President Robert Mugabe had not won the 2008 elections, the very first day of the count, but at the same time they were not certain that Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai had received over 50 percent of the vote.

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While Zimbabwe “was soaked in its anti-imperialist rhetoric and conspiracy theories”, it had a growing list of enemies including its own neighbours according to a cable from the United States embassy in Harare.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front did not have a lot of respect for Parliament despite its majority in the House and instead it preferred to use statutory instruments to pass legislation as these could be effective immediately without having to go through the rigorous process that bills had to do through.

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President Robert Mugabe was up for debate in the House of Lords yesterday after Lord Pendry asked the government what representations they had made to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation over their promotion of Mugabe as “Leader for tourism”.

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Zimbabwe’s Commercial Farmers Union expected the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front to win the 2005 elections by a wide margin but their hope was that a less threatened President Robert Mugabe would dismiss Agriculture Minister Joseph Made, whom they said was the main architect of the fast-track land reform.

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With millions of Zimbabweans having fled their country to look for greener pastures in neighbouring South Africa and Botswana, anyone who claimed that Zimbabweans were happier than people from their more prosperous neighbours would be considered nuts.

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Former army commander Solomon Mujuru told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan that President Robert Mugabe would step down after the 2005 elections if his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front won a two-thirds majority in Parliament.

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