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Theresa Makone, (above) of the MDC-Tsvangirai and now co-Minister of Home Affairs in Zimbabwe's Coalition Government, ganged up with her relative, the ZANU PF Minister in charge of the Secret Police to "intimidate" police officers and demand the release of the ZANU PF Minister's son, who is in police custody for invading and grabbing a white-owned company. He and an accomplice, Themba Mliswa, who is a nephew of the ZANU PF Minister, are still behind bars, with the Zimbabwe police making public complaints through the state media that the two ministers' actions are "tantamount to defeating the course of justice". The ZANU PF Minister says that is nonsense, while Makone has refused to comment. Harare, Zimbabwe, 05 July 2010 Theresa Makone, the newly-installed co-Minister of Home Affairs in the Coalition Government has already started using her new powers: to demand the release of the detained son of a senior ZANU PF Minister. Makone is wife to the Permanent...

Robert "The Solution"Mugabe, who is officially on leave, was at the swearing-in ceremony for President Guebuza of Mozambique yesterday (photo above). Meantime, his friends and allies were busy kicking tobacco farmers off their lands, having waited until now, when the the tobacco is ready for harvesting and curing before pouncing. It is plunder and pillage, no question about it. Harare, Zimbabwe, 15 January 2010 In a shocking and naked case of pure and unbridled greed, plunder and pillage, two senior ZANU PF members, one a Government minister, have gone about "evicting'' seven of the remaining white farmers in the Nyazura area of Manicaland province in order to harvest the farmers' tobacco crop, which is now just maturing. Didymus Mutasa, Mugabe's minister in charge of the Secret Police, the Central Intelligence Organisation, is believed to be behind the move, which is being masterminded by Themba Mliswa, who has also been causing havoc for years now in M...

Themba Mliswa (above), a staunch ZANU PF supporter and former sports agent in the UK, now lives on a farm in Karoi in Zimbabwe. The farm was invaded and taken from a white owner during Mugabe's land redistribution exercise. Now it emerges that a tobacco he owns has been fingered by the police for smuggling tobacco worth US$2 million. The company blames an unnamed manager, whom they say they have fired. He has not been named nor arrested for such a huge crime that sabotages efforts to put the country back on the right track economically Harare, Zimbabwe, 06 December 2009 While screaming and shouting about "genuine empowerment" as well as accusing the MDC-T especially, of sabotaging the recovery of Zimbabwe's economy, it now emerges that a company owned by a staunch Mugabe lackey and avid farm invader, Themba Mliswa, has been caught smuggling tobacco to Zambia, prejudicing Zimbabwe of foreign currency. Saltlakes, a company owned by Mliswa, who operates out of Mugabe...