The Insider

The Insider has now published more than 150 Wikileaks cables in full but has so far only managed to put the first 100 together on our Wikileaks link.

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War veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda has been one of the most controversial political upstarts from Bulawayo. He has been involved in raging battles with bigwigs like Zimbabwe African People’s Union leader and former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front politburo member Dumiso Dabengwa, former ZANU-PF chairman and now Vice-President John Nkomo. He has been suspended so many times from the party but is now reported to be at the forefront of the ZANU-PF instigated violence in the rural areas of Masvingo and other parts of the country. But his name is only cited in two Wikileaks cables and two embassy notes also released under Wikileaks. It is not even clear whether the war veterans leader is the same Jabulani Sibanda cited in one of the cables that just contains names of people alleged to have received education allowances.

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War veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda surprised everyone when he spearheaded the Million Men and Women March set for Harare to show support for President Robert Mugabe’s candidacy for the 2008 elections because he had been expelled from the Zimbabwe African National Union- patriotic Front.

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In one of the vaguest cables released by Wikileaks, the United States embassy in Harare sent out a list of names under a cable entitled: Education allowances for Zimbabwe- Year 2007- Harare 574. It is not clear what the list was about but The Insider found it while searching for war veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda. It is not even clear whether the Sibanda in the cable is the war veterans leader?

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Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo announced at the beginning of May 2001 that the government was introducing an ultra fast-track land reform programme that would see more than 35 000 people resettled by the end of the month.

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The concerted fast-track land reform that the government had embarked on since 2000 had divided white farmers by February 2001 with some arguing that they should work with the government to break the impasse while others said the government was not interested in any compromise because as far as the government was concerned land was political.

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Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo, who was exposed by his former wife in an acrimonious divorce as one of the richest politicians in Zimbabwe has 63 Wikileaks cables that cite his name. 

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