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Movement for Democratic Change shadow Minister for Finance Tapiwa Mashakada was suspended with three other legislators pending an investigation into his role in factional disputes that had been simmering for almost a month.

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The Movement for Democratic Change’s shadow Minister for Economic Affairs Tendai Biti and the shadow Minister for Finance Tapiwa Mashakada were reported to be emerging as rivals for the control of the party’s economic policy, according to the United States embassy.

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Eric Matinenga was a prominent lawyer before being appointed Minister of Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs. Interestingly he has represented people from the two different political divides- Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change and Leo Mugabe, a former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front legislator who is also President Robert Mugabe’s nephew. There are 26 Wikileaks cables on him. Here they are:

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The Zimbabwe Independent said three Movement for Democratic Change ministers, co-Home Affairs Minister Giles Mutsekwa, Energy Minister Elias Mudzuri and Mines deputy Minister Murisi Zvizwai, were facing internal corruption investigations but party spokesman Nelson Chamisa denied this.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front chairman and Lands Minister John Nkomo was too timid to assert himself and was leaving hardliners, Information Minister Jonathan Moyo and Agriculture Minister Joseph Made, to run the land reform programme, United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan said.

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The co-chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Constitution Paul Mangwana berated war veterans and told their leader Joseph Chinotimba to “ shut up and stick to business” when war veterans tried to disrupt a training session of a thematic committee.

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The United States embassy said the arrest of Finance Minister Chris Kuruneri for externalising foreign currency was not the answer to the country’s problems because he was a moderate who had spoken against a proposal by hardliner Minister of Agriculture Joseph Made.

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The prosecution of legislators from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change, which the party claimed was aimed at overturning its majority in the House of Assembly, was a futile exercise because eight of the 10 Members of Parliament from the smaller faction of the MDC were solidly behind the MDC-T.

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