The Insider

The Movement for Democratic Change gave the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front an easy victory in Seke raising the number of seats the ruling party held to 67, just two seats short of giving it a two-thirds majority that would enable the party to change the constitution.

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A British journalist, Paul Dacre, who is the editor-in-chief of the Daily Mirror group, which runs the most viewed website in the world, is now frequently referred to as Paul Mugabe Dacre.

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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. Here are the cables on him including a few on his son.

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The death of Eddison Zvobgo, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front legislator for Masvingo South and a veteran nationalist, had left a void within the ruling ZANU-PF which was difficult to fill, United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan said.

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The hospitalisation of Masvingo legislator Eddison Zvobgo in October 2003 halted Parliament’s ability to pass bills for several weeks as he was chairman of the crucial Parliamentary Legal Committee.

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Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Welshman Ncube told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan that conducting a war against the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front with petrol bombs would be suicidal.

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Police tear-gassed about 4000 people led by ZANU-PF militia and war veterans who had besieged the Grain Marketing Board depot in Bulawayo demanding transparency in the distribution of maize.

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Movement for Democratic Change secretary general Welshman Ncube said sanctions imposed on President Robert Mugabe and his lieutenants were effective in turning the heat on Zimbabwe’s primary decision makers but he expressed concern that an asset freeze had not been implemented.

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Danger signs of a setup were evident from the beginning in the Dickens and Madson’s approach to the Movement for Democratic Change and the party’s failure to recognise these at the time revealed a surprising political naiveté, MDC secretary general Welshman Ncube said.

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About a dozen white farmers who left Zimbabwe eight years ago to settle in Nigeria could be in trouble.

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