Former South African President Thabo Mbeki’s stance on Zimbabwe and other issues in his own country raised questions about his judgment leading United States ambassador to South Africa, Delano Lewis, to describe him as a brilliant but prickly leader of “Africa’s most important state” who did not accept criticism.
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Readers of The Insider say Zimbabwe should attain economic recovery first and if any elections are to be held they should be held next year.
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Foreign-owned mining companies in Zimbabwe have one month to come up with plans which they are going to implement to cede majority ownership to locals. They have until May 10 to do so.
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Although a trip from Bulawayo to Harare on a luxury coach costs no less than $30, Air Zimbabwe was charging the equivalent of $25 for a trip from Harare to London when the actual cost was $800, the Parliamentary Committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development heard.
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Blessing-Miles Tendi says one of the reasons why the Movement for Democratic Change split was that some of its leaders were against violence, which they claimed had been ingrained in the party from the beginning. The Insider published several stories just before and after the split. Here they are:
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The Movement for Democratic Change which has played victim to the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front throughout its 12-year history is a violent party itself and this was one of the reasons why the party split in 2005, a new book says.
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