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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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Retired judge George Smith says he is the legal advisor for River Ranch Limited, owners of the diamond mine of the same name near Beitbridge. Even his email address uses…

Johane Sango was one of the people who moved with Masiyiwa from Retrofit to Econet. Masiyiwa had paid for him to complete his high school, and he had joined Retrofit immediately thereafter in 1992. He recalls the difficult initial period.

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Diamonds in Marange were discovered by De Beers Zimbabwe in 2002 and not by African Consolidated Resources in 2006 as is now widely reported.

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Econet is now the country’s largest mobile phone service provider in Zimbabwe. Its founder Strive Masiyiwa had to go through a lot to establish the network. Here is the second part of this story.

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