It was originally allocated to Ruschrome Mining by President Robert Mugabe in 2006 before being taken over by Vi Holding in 2014 after failing to attract financing (AC Vol 54 No 25 Arms-for-minerals trades exposed & Vol 55 No 14 Arms-for-platinum deal)...
Having founded Sakunda in 2005 Tagwirei 51 was well established but much more discreet before Mnangagwa and Chiwenga seized power from President Robert Mugabe in 2017...
An ironic reworking of the putsch that Mnangagwa and Chiwenga had jointly organised against President Robert Mugabe in November 2017...
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However if it can present a joint government with Khupe's MDC as a serious government of national unity – intentionally recalling the coalition government of Tsvangirai and then-President Robert Mugabe – it may win over some Western governments and international institutions...
However such beliefs are widespread in the fractious elite and Mnangagwa himself was rumoured to have been poisoned in the run-up to his sacking by ex-President Robert Mugabe in 2017...
Tagwirei was a close associate of then First Lady Grace Mugabe and Simba Chikore son-in-law of Robert Mugabe prior to the coup against the president in November 2017...
It comes as relations between the government and Western states falter again after a brief improvement following the ousting of President Robert Mugabe in November 2017 (AC Vol 58 No 25 A martial mind-set)...
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The death of Robert Mugabe means little to the majority of Zimbabweans...
It also operated a US$24 million slush fund under the personal and exclusive control of President Robert Mugabe as reported in Zimbabwe's The Independent newspaper in January last year...
' Yes we did love Robert Mugabe once – I perhaps more than others...
Wilf Mbanga (with notebook) sharing a joke with Robert Mugabe and Julius Nyerere in 1984 But I find it hard to mourn him today...
That was the day I mourned the death of my Robert Mugabe...
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