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Mines Minister Obert Mpofu told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGhee that only three people had died at Chiadzwa and their deaths were the result of internal disputes not involving the military or the police.

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Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono told United States embassy officials that there was pressure on President Robert Mugabe to step down before the 2008 elections but he argued that he would stay on to deliver a Zimbabwean African National Union-Patriotic Front victory and he also wanted to outlast former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda.

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The government ordered businesses to reduce prices by half and unleashed a special task force to enforce price controls in what some described as “controlled looting” which left most supermarket shelves empty of staples.

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Despite claims that the two-day stay-away organised by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions had been a failure, Industry and Trade Minister Obert Mpofu threatened unspecified action against companies that supported the stay-away.

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The governor for Matebeleland North Obert Mpofu and Minister for Special Affairs John Nkomo said chiefs would distribute food relief after they learnt that most of the food meant for the villagers was being diverted.

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Matabeleland North governor Obert Mpofu is reported to have vowed that only Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front supporters would be resettled in his province and it did not matter if the economy was destroyed in the process because the ruling party would then rebuild it just like the Japanese rebuilt their economy after World War II.

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The Parliament Committee on Mines and Energy which is chaired by former Mines Minister Edward Chindori-Chininga has grilled the leadership of the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation and the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe for lack of oversight on the two joint ventures operating in Chiadzwa, Mbada Diamonds and Canadile Miners.

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Mines Minister Obert Mpofu said the state was going to appeal against the court ruling that the Chiadzwa diamond fields belonged to African Consolidated Resources.

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Mines Minister Obert Mpofu told a parliamentary select committee that government wanted 50 percent shareholding in joint ventures with investors and this was not negotiable.

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Mines Minister Obert Mpofu said Zimbabwe was planning investor-friendly legislation and was reviewing the Indigenisation Bill which required foreign companies to sell 51 percent of their mine assets to Zimbabweans.

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