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The dates for the High Court hearing of Econet’s appeal were set for September 18 and 19, 1997. After the hearing, Justice Sandura’s assistant informed the press that because of the huge amount of documents that needed to be studied, a decision would be made only by the end of the year.

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Former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith never forgave the British for bringing about majority rule in 1980. Up until his death he believed that blacks were incapable of thinking for…

Confusion still surrounds the number of undocumented Zimbabweans in South Africa. Some reports say there are about 1.2 million. One British peer yesterday put the figure at 500 000. But the guessing game will be over at the end of this month as South Africa will start deporting those staying in the country illegally if it sticks to its deadline.

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Econet now presented a 100 page letter to the Government Tender Board (GTB), which was made up of senior civil servants and came under the Ministry of Finance, outlining its objections to the award of the license to Telecel.

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The plan seems to be very simple and sounds more like a recipe. Get rid of Robert Mugabe. Allow him to go into exile. Bring in Emmerson Mnangagwa. Add opposition…

President Robert Mugabe can only be replaced by a ZANU-PF candidate as president if he dies during the lifetime of the Global Political Agreement, according to Veritas, an organisation that specialises in legal and constitutional matters in Zimbabwe.

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Econet applied to the Supreme Court towards the end of January 1997 seeking confirmation that it was duly licensed. It argued that the government had failed to comply with the December verdict of the Supreme Court requiring the completion of the licensing procedures.

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Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega’s daughter, Thays Noriega, wanted the United Nations Security Council to take stern action against Zimbabwe just before the 2008 presidential elections because President Robert Mugabe could not be rewarded for thwarting the opposition.

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On February 5, 1996, President Robert Mugabe issued the presidential decree requiring private parties to obtain a license from the Ministry of Information, Post, and Telecommunications before setting up a cellular network.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change yesterday threatened to use other means to raise money to pay civil servants if its rival Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front continued to block its proposals to raise the money from within the state sector.

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