News about Zimbabwe that you can use
Movement for Democratic Change negotiator Elton Mangoma told United States ambassadors that President Robert Mugabe was totally immersed in power games that he was not worried about how many people would perish along the way.
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Econet was to embark on a US$93.9 million expansion to increase its capacity from 1.2 million subscribers in June to 5 million by the end of 2009.
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The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, which had stopped the fungibility of Old Mutual shares, was reported to be buying the shares on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange and transferring them to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange to pay for electricity imports from South Africa’s Eskom.
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Auditing firm Deloitte appeared to have inflated the total ballots cast at an extraordinary meeting of mobile phone operator Econet in March 2009 to boost the vote in favour of a resolution to enter into a US$93.9 million sale agreement with Econet Wireless Global, a Strive Masiyiwa investment vehicle, according to a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks.
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Zeroes, removed in August came back with a vengeance with the Old Mutual Implied exchange rate which stood at Z$676.1 billion to the United States dollar before the removal of 10 zeroes shooting up to Z$890.1 billion to the dollar three months later.
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It is not the Daily News, the paper that Nyarota founded and which Masiyiwa later rescued. It is Central Intelligence Organisation operative Robert Manungo.
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The signing of the Global Political Agreement, which was supposed to usher a new government with Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai as Prime Minister and Arthur Mutambara as deputy Prime Minister, did not stop the negative sentiment in the market with the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange and fixed properties becoming the only reasonable hedges against exploding inflation.
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The United States says its public diplomacy had paid off in bringing about democracy in Zimbabwe when the opposition Movement for Democratic Change managed to squeeze in 57 seats from the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front after nearly 20 years of one party rule.
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The uncontested victory of Robert Mugabe in the presidential elections run-off of 2008 failed to stop the economic collapse with more companies turning to barter trade to preserve value.
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