The government was trying to revoke the citizenship of publisher Trevor Ncube because his father was born in Zambia. Zimbabwe did not allow dual citizenship. Ncube said he had been told about this in October 2006 when he went to renew his passport. He said he was told by the immigration official that his Zimbabwean
Econet boss Strive Masiyiwa, Eton Capital executive and former Barclays Bank managing director Isaac Takawira, Triumph Venture Capital chief executive Wellington Chadehumbe and Johnnic Communications executive Jethro Goko have now been identified as the four exiled Zimbabwean businessmen who floated the idea of trying to ease President Robert Mugabe out way back in 2007 and
Zimbabwean publisher Trevor Ncube told United States embassy officials on 30 August 2007 that he was so thoroughly disgusted by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change that he believed that only a third way political force could take the country forward. He suggested that the third way could be
Former Daily News editor Nqobile Nyathi, who was appointed deputy chairperson of the Zimbabwe Media Commission was close to Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe and had authored several speeches for her. According to the United States embassy Nyathi along with lawyer Chris Mhike and journalist Miriam Madziwa were seen as reform-minded members of the commission.
Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front had borrowed many of the electrical reforms for the 2005 elections from the MDC playbook but they still did not address the five conditions laid down by the MDC to participate in the elections. The MDC insisted on: Rule of law