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The permanent secretary for Finance Nicholas Ncube told a United States embassy official in December 2001 that the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front had been in election mode for almost three years beginning with the failed campaign for a new constitution in 1999.

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Finance Minister Simba Makoni presented a gloomy picture of Zimbabwe to visiting United States assistant secretary for African Affairs Walter Kansteiner and even asked what Zimbabwe could do to avoid being slapped with sanctions under the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act.

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Our book: How to buy a house for half the price, has received a rave review in the Pretoria News, which says it is the South African capital’s only daily paper.

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Masvingo South legislator Eddison Zvobgo said although he supported the idea of an executive president he also believed that the president’s powers should be curtailed.

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Finance Minister Simba Makoni acknowledged that there would be a food shortage and the country would have to import but there had been no budget provision for food imports.

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Finance Minister Simba Makoni asked Eddison Zvobgo, once one of the most powerful people in the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front who had been sidelined but remained within the party, how he could get out.

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The Commercial Farmers Union said it was making headway in trying to convince the government to adopt its land reform plan which would see the CFU providing the government a list of farms totalling five million hectares that would be made available for resettlement.

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We have now published just over 1250 Wikileaks cables on Zimbabwe alone. We are not yet half way but as we have stated before our aim is to publish all the Wikileaks cables that were released on Zimbabwe.

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The Commercial Farmers Union, which was under siege from the farm invaders, had decided to work with the government and use Finance Minister Simba Makoni as a conduit to present their new plan to President Robert Mugabe.

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The idea to have sanctions targeted at individuals including President Robert Mugabe rather than on Zimbabwe as a country might have come from Commercial Farmers Union director David Hasluck.

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