The Insider

Zimbabwe paid some British pensioners currently residing in South Africa in March but has since stopped the payments because of technical and procedural difficulties with some of the banks.

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President Robert Mugabe displayed his economic ignorance when he officially opened Parliament in July 2003 as his economic recovery ambitions were not based on reality, or any concept close to this, according to United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti today said diamond revenue could be going to a parallel government as treasury only received US$30.4 million against a target of US$122.5 million in the first quarter of this year.

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President Robert Mugabe is reported to have warned the United States and Britain not to invade Zimbabwe saying it would be their children who would die first.

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South African President Thabo Mbeki denied that he had discussed with United States President George Bush during his visit to Pretoria that President Robert Mugabe would step down in December.

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The Daily News said President George Bush should put pressure on South African President Thabo Mbeki to stop covering for President Robert Mugabe.

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President Robert Mugabe was an old man who refused to open his eyes to the reality of his country because politically and economically he was bereft of ideas to rescue it from certain disaster.

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United States secretary of State Colin Powell came under fire for writing an op-ed column in the New York Times critical of President Robert Mugabe.

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The editor of the Daily News, Nqobile Nyathi, was arrested, charged and released on 26 June 2003 for publishing adverts insulting President Robert Mugabe.

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Eddison Zvobgo was one of the most powerful politicians in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. That was until he began to challenge corruption within the party, and the fact that President Robert Mugabe had overstayed. He was also one of the party’s chief legal draftsmen and is reported to have regretted creating the executive presidency. He had fallen out with Mugabe when he died but remained within the party till his death. There are 49 cables on him. Here they are:

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