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It details a breakfast meeting on 16 November 2000 between Tsvangirai and Susan Rice, then-president Bill Clinton's assistant secretary for African affairs. "He fears for his future if he steps down – citing the Charles Taylor example – and perhaps even more importantly fears for the future of his wife and young children."Īnother memo from the US embassy in Harare – with subheadings that include "How to get Mugabe out" – shows that a decade ago the MDC considered a "mass action" intended to force the president from office. UN SYG Ban may not wish to engage on this issue at the beginning of his tenure, especially in view of the way Mugabe treated former UN SYG Annan. "Significant outside intervention, therefore, may not be necessary however, gentle encouragement from Pretoria is unlikely to be amiss. It says Tsvangirai told embassy officials that "this is Mugabe's Plan B as he runs into growing resistance" and that the prime minister would be Simba Makoni, a former Mugabe ally turned rival. Moeletsi Mbeki, a South African businessman and brother of its then president, Thabo Mbeki, recommended against South Africa playing the mediation role, arguing instead for a combination such as Ban and Mahathir.Īn additional note from the US embassy in Harare suggests the MDC endorsed the concept. Little detail was given on how Mugabe, a hero of the liberation struggle who came to power in 1980, could be persuaded to stand aside. "The four businessmen agreed that there is a 'window of opportunity' to bring positive change to Zimbabwe, opened by the deteriorating economic situation and Mugabe's advancing age and declining health." The US embassy said it could not comment on the merits of the plan but found it "encouraging" that senior Zimbabwean businessmen abroad were discussing solutions to the country's political and economic malaise. The prime minister would have needed the backing of 85% of parliament and therefore the support of the opposition MDC. In return for various reforms the international community was to agree on a phased lifting of sanctions, the "acceptance" of the extension of Mugabe's term to 2010 and economic assistance to help rehabilitate the Zimbabwean economy. Deployment of troops would have required the approval of both the PM and president. The prime minister would have appointed other cabinet members, particularly in the economic arena. Mugabe would have retained the power to appoint the ministers of defence, home affairs and national security. was open to ideas on who best to sell the plan, but suggested new UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, working through an envoy like former Malaysian PM Mahathir, as possible mediators."
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"All parties would work together to draft a new constitution.
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"To get Mugabe to accept the deal, Mugabe would remain president until 2010 with some power over the security apparatus, but the prime minister would run the economy and get the country back on its feet," the dispatch says. The cable names a group of prominent Zimbabwean businessmen living in South Africa who were pushing for change but says their leader's identity should be "strictly protected".Įxecutive power was to be shifted from Mugabe to a "technocratic" prime minister. At the time Zimbabwe was plunging into an unprecedented economic crisis. The plot came to nothing, although it does bear similarities to the power sharing deal that saw Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai become prime minister after violent elections in 2008.Ī confidential memo from the US embassy in South Africa is entitled "Secret power sharing plan" and dated 30 January 2007.