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- ↑ "Know Your Ministers: Elias Mudzuri", The Zimbabwe Times, 6 April 2009.
- ↑ "BREAKING: Mudzuri tests positive for Coronavirus".
- ↑ "MDC takes Harare and Chitungwiza" Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine , SADOCC, 15 March 2002.
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