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Robert Mugabe and Gideon Gono inspecting farming equipment that was being distributed by the Reserve Bank to farmers all over Zimbabwe last year. Mugabe has now come out in support of the reintroduction of the Zimbabwe dollar and says it will be back by the end of the year. He was speaking after accepting 60 tonnes of maize presented to him in gratitude by the villagers of Zhombe yesterday. Harare, Zimbabwe, 05 November 2009 Robert "The Solution" Mugabe yesterday told villagers in Zhombe that the Zimbabwe dollar will be back by year-end in order to mitigate the suffering of rural people. Mugabe was speaking in the area at a ceremony where he was given 60 tonnes of maize by villagers who said they wanted to thank him because they had managed to get a very good harvest as a result of the inputs they got last year from Gideon Gono and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. Mugabe's said that it was unacceptable that people in the rural areas are now "forced" to hand over go...

Tendai Biti confirms for the first time what we said during December last year and January this year, that he and others were dead set against joining Mugabe. As one of the negotiators, Biti knew that there were issues on which there had been no agreement, issues that the negotiators ha referred to their "Principals". Mugabe used well-known and tired negotiating tactics in his one on one negotiations with Tsvangirai, after these matters had been referred to the Principals. Tsvangirai panicked, seeing his chance to be Prime Minister slipping, even though the African Union had specifically said it would only recognise a Coalition government in Zimbabwe. As a result of the panic, he gave in to Mugabe and forced his National Council to adopt a resolution to join the government over the objections of Tendai Biti, Nelson Chamisa, Roy Bennett and others. Harare, Zimbabwe, 12 October 2009 Finance Minister and MDC Secretary-General has now confirmed that it was Morgan Tsvangirai who f...