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Eddison Zvobgo Junior believed that President Robert Mugabe could step down and allow Vice-President Joice Mujuru to stand as president in 2008 provided she could protect him from prosecution but Mugabe’s former spin doctor Jonathan Moyo thought that he was not going to step down until 2010 but might change the constitution to create the post of Prime Minister for Mujuru.

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Retired general Solomon Mujuru wanted his wife Joyce to become President with Simba Makoni as Prime Minister if his group could push through the president/prime minister constitutional amendment in 2007 and win the 2008 elections, according to former journalist Sydney Masamvu.

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The former news editor of the Financial Gazette Nelson Banya said retired army general Solomon Mujuru and his wife vice-President Joyce Mujuru felt threatened by central bank governor Gideon Gono who owned the Financial Gazette because they saw him as a possible candidate in the post-Mugabe succession race.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai was so confident that his party would win the 2005 general elections that he ruled out entering into a government of national unity with the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front saying that would be “political suicide”.

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Moeletsi Mbeki, brother of former South African President Thabo Mbeki, told United States embassy officials that Joyce and Solomon Mujuru were not “Shona tribalists” like President Robert Mugabe or Emmerson Mnangagwa.

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That was the title of the diplomatic cable dispatched by the United States embassy in Harare on 26 August 2004, two days after the release of businessman James Makamba. All we can say is: No comment.

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The United States embassy said way back in 2003 that former Finance Minister Simba Makoni had little political weight on his own to advance his political ambitions and could only emerge as a serious candidate if he was pushed by others like Solomon Mujuru.

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Former army commander Solomon Mujuru said elections should be a clean fight and both sides should be able to accept the outcome.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front won the Marondera by-election but its candidate Ambrose Mutinhiri, a retired brigadier general and former ambassador to Yugoslavia, garnered far fewer votes than his predecessor whose death in a car accident brought about the by-election.

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