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MDC-T needs US$5 million for congress
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
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
Twenty years ago- Too young for comfort
The multi-million dollar military headquarters that was built for Six Brigade at Battlefields was taken over by Five Brigade because, it is claimed, the soldiers of Six Brigade were too young to live in comfort and had not played any meaningful role either in the liberation of the country or bringing about the peace that now prevails.
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Zimbabwe gets go ahead to sell Marange diamonds but….
Zimbabwe has finally obtained the go-ahead to sell its rough diamonds from Marange but the deal could be scuttled because Russia says the Kimberley Process outgoing chairman Boaz Hirsch of Israel did not follow the proper procedure.
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Twenty years ago- There is no opposition in heaven
Debate on the introduction of a one-party state in Zimbabwe has been on and off for the past year. Although the matter seemed to have been resolved when President Mugabe said it would not be legislated, he has nevertheless since said it is still the goal of his ruling party to establish a one-party state.
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