The Insider

Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika wanted to open dialogue with President Robert Mugabe because he was concerned about the impact of the economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe on Malawi.

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A Zimbabwean businessman of Indian origin Ramish Kewada, who owned a paint and plastics retail shop in Harare, asked a United States embassy official eight years ago whether the West was afraid of President Robert Mugabe because he was an intelligent black man because he did not understand why they wanted to get rid of him.

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First Lady Grace Mugabe sat stone-faced throughout the four-hour installation of Catholic Archbishop Robert Christopher Ndlovu at the Harare Sport centre while President Robert Mugabe tapped his finger to the music and occasionally clapped, a cable released by Wikileaks says.

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President Robert Mugabe urged the church to engage in dialogue with the government and not to go to “outside authorities- Blairs and Bushes” and upbraided Bulawayo Archbishop Pius Ncube for tarnishing Zimbabwe’s image abroad.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front has been able to exploit Zimbabweans because they are gambler-esque: “I lost the last hand, but I might have better luck next time”.

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It was former Chimanimani legislator Michael Mataure who said President Robert Mugabe believed he was the only person who could hold the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the country together. And that was 12 years ago.

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President Robert Mugabe was accused of protecting those who carried out his dirty deeds during the 2000 pre-election period and the national referendum when he declared an amnesty for every person “liable to criminal prosecution for any politically-motivated crime” committed between January 1 and July 31, 2000.

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International pressure especially that brought about by the United Kingdom had backed President Robert Mugabe in a corner making him more difficult to deal with than before Zimbabwe’s departure from the Commonwealth.

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Zimbabwe withdrew its request for assistance with the 2005 elections from the United Nations Development Programme, according to the United States embassy, but the embassy construed this to mean that it was setting the stage for a considerably reduced international presence in the run-up to and during the March 2005 parliamentary elections.

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While land reform was a means to empower the majority of Zimbabwe’s blacks and to redress colonial injustices, to President Robert Mugabe it was thread central to his ego, one that added to his stature not just in Zimbabwe but throughout Africa and the wider developing world.

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