The Insider

United States President George Bush’s visit to Africa in 2003 was viewed as an African safari with a regime change agenda in mind, namely mobilising African leaders to isolate Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.

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There was more trouble for Information Minister Jonathan Moyo when the party decided that it would reserve a third of the seats in the 2005 parliamentary elections for women and his Tsholotsho seat was one of those that was going to be affected.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti is always complaining that the country has no money. Reports say the 2012 budget is off the rails because the government is not going to get the diamond revenue it expected. Yet, the government has just thrown $45 million down the drain by drafting a constitution that will definitely be rejected by the people.

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Masvingo Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front supremo Eddison Zvobgo told United States embassy officials that he and a group of dissatisfied party cadres were working to force President Robert Mugabe out.

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Former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front politburo member Eddison Zvobgo, who had fallen out with President Robert Mugabe, told United States embassy officials that Mugabe’s new cabinet, which saw Finance Minister Simba Makoni being kicked, out was rotten to the core.

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The Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act was finally passed after three weeks if haggling between Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Parliamentary Legal Committee Chairman Eddison Zvobgo.

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Masvingo kingpin Eddison Zvobgo was convinced that President Robert Mugabe was going to lose the 2002 presidential elections because he was no longer listening to him or to anyone else.

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The United States already had it cut out for a Morgan Tsvangirai or Robert Mugabe victory in the 2002 presidential elections three months before the poll.

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Welshman Ncube was the second most powerful person within the Movement for Democratic Change when the party was formed in 1999. His political star, however, began to fade when he led a splinter group in 2005 that insisted that the party should contest the senate elections. A constitutional expert, Ncube may have been right in principle, but the move backfired. Though he allowed Arthur Mutambara to lead the party until he took over, the MDC that Ncube now leads only commands 10 seats in Parliament. It could even lose those seats to either his main rival Morgan Tsvangirai or the resuscitated Zimbabwe African People’s Union led by Dumiso Dabengwa. There are more than 200 Wikileaks cables on him. Here are the first 50.

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The presidents of South Africa, Nigeria and Malawi attempted to restart talks between the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change but both sides stuck to their original positions – Mugabe demanding that the MDC recognise his presidency, and the MDC refusing any preconditions to talks.

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