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Mugabe appears on CNN last week. He was in New York to attend the 64th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, which he also addressed and predictably lamented sanctions imposed on him and his party. During the interview, however, Mugabe betrayed an aspect of the Inclusive Government that escaped all observers. As I explain below, put together with the behaviour of his spokesman, George Charamba and all the other breaches of the spirit behind the Inclusive Government, it shows us the true state of the health of the Inclusive Government Harare, Zimbabwe, 03 September 2009 Almost everybody failed to notice a very significant aspect of Mugabe's interview with Amanpour on CNN last week. Throughout the interview, not once did Mugabe refer to Morgan Tsvangirai as the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, even though he sought to play up the Inclusive Government as "genuine power-sharing" which should not be "denigrated." When he spoke about Roy Bennett, the Zimbabwe Pre...

It turns out Zimbabwe's new prime minister was not catered for in the budget drawn up and announced by Patrick Chinamasa just before the MDC agreed to join government. Because there is no specific budget for his office, I understand Tsvangirai's office is currently living off the budget of the Office of The President. Which means we can say, just as with the Ministers of State in the President's office, the Prime Minister's Office should also be known as the Prime Minister In The President's Office. You will recall that Chinamasa budgeted a blanket US$30 million in salaries for the civil service. In the breakdown of the ministerial allocations, Tsvangirai office is missing. It is unclear why this was so, especially considering the ZANU PF position back then of trying to show SADC that it was bending over backwards to accommodate the MDC and its leader. Still, it all works out fine. I doubt that the US$30million will mean anything at all to this new monstrous behemo...