The Insider

For nearly a decade, the Zimbabwean government has called for the lifting of sanctions because they are hurting ordinary Zimbabweans and not only the so-called targetted people.

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Church leaders from the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe Christian Council and the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference all tried to open dialogue between the Movement for Democratic Change and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front but made no headway.

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Movement for Democratic Change special advisor Gandi Mudzingwa told United States embassy officials that local bishops who were trying to get the MDC and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front to the negotiating table had told him that high ranking ZANU-PF leaders were committed to dialogue.

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The Financial Gazette described the government’s proposed move to withdraw passports of Zimbabweans who were opposed to it as a sign of a regime gone berserk and nearing its end.

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The Bulawayo daily, The Chronicle, called on the government to ban rogue non-governmental organisations which were reportedly handing out drought relief food to rural communities claiming it was coming from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.

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Police founds weapons at the house of a Movement for Democratic Change activist’s house at the height of the week-long stay-away that had been called for by the party but they did not claim that the weapons were intended for use during the demonstrations.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said the militias would have to be dissolved in order to minimise the possibility of violence before any new elections could be held.

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Former Home Affairs Minister John Nkomo threatened in 2001 to revoke the passports of Zimbabweans who were campaigning abroad for the imposition of sanctions on Zimbabwe.

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