13 years ago 13 years ago

Air Zimbabwe buys Airbus planes

by Charles Rukuni 13 years ago13 years ago

Air Zimbabwe has bought two new A340-200 Airbus passenger planes from France in a deal bankrolled by Mbada Diamonds, one of the mining firms licensed to mine at the controversial Marange diamond fields reports said today. The company’s involvement, although a welcome relief for Air Zimbabwe, which was struggling to replace its ageing aircraft, is likely to fuel speculation that President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF is running a parallel structure since the money was not channeled through treasury.

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The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.