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Twenty years ago – Farmer fined for helping peasants

A Gweru cattle farmer, Paul Richard Friedricks, a director of Anchor Ranching was fined $7 000 for buying more than 1 000 bags of maize from communal farmers. Although the amount looks high, he was lucky because he could have been fined anything between $45 000 and $48 000 had the magistrate not found extenuating circumstances. 

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No election yet

ZANU-PF spokesman, Rugare Gumbo, has called on party members to stop electioneering because President Robert Mugabe has not yet called for an election in 2011, reports said today.  "Only after…
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Twenty years ago- Political scheming

The popularity of John Nkomo, now Minister of Labour, Manpower Planning and Social Welfare  nearly cost him his political career and according to sources he was only saved by the personal intervention of President Mugabe and Vice-President Muzenda.

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No money

Finance Minister Tendai Biti today said there was no money to pay civil servants who are demanding a salary increase of up to 200 percent.  “For the month of January…