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Herbert Murerwa, who is now Minister of Farm Invasions in Zimbabwe, seen here when he was still Minister of Finance, has been dragged to court by a black farmer allocated a farm under the Land Reform Programme. Murerwa has withdrawn the Offer Letter to the black farmer, Joseph Banda, who says the move was motivated by the Minister's business interests with the former owner, Michael Baxter. Harare, Zimbabwe, 16 January 2010 Herbert Murerwa, the Land Reform and Land Resettlement Minister who is a member of Mugabe's party, ZANU PF, has been taken to court by a "New Farmer", a black farmer occupying a seized farm who is accusing him of protecting the white who originally owned the farm next to the Minister's in the Goromonzi District of Zimbabwe. Joseph Banda, the black farmer given the farm originally owned by Michael Baxter,  has had his offer letter withdrawn by the Minister and he says this is out of malice.  He also accuses the Minister of acting in order to prot...

"And who are you again?" Mugabe puts government in suspended animation every time he is away. This started before the Inclusive government and to Mugabe, nothing has changed. Morgan Tsvangirai has only made matters worse by telling an interviewer that Mugabe is "irreplaceable and indispensable." The dictators head can only grow bigger. Harare, Zimbabwe, 13 January 2010 Morgan Tsvangirai should not take it personally, I suppose. Mugabe will not let him chair Cabinet, despite the Prime Minister's persistent requests. He has even made it an "outstanding issue." Tsvangirai is, after all, Deputy Chair of Cabinet, according to the Global Political Disagreement. It turns out, however, that Mugabe has always run government like personal property. His property. Even before the MDCs joined him at the national feeding trough, he would not let anyone else chair cabinet meetings in his absence. Dr Nkomo knew better than to make an issue of this. As did Simon Muzend...