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British wildlife investor seeks land in Zambia
By
Business Reporter
A BRITISH investor who has teamed up with the Lion and
Cheetah Park of
Zimbabwe has made an urgent request for land to set up a
tourist attraction
in Zambia.
Messrs Patrick and Johnny Gallagher said
in a communiqué in Ndola that the
Lion and Cheetah Park, located in Harare,
was one of the successful tourist
attractions in the region.
The park
was, however, occupied by war veterans making it difficult to
repair and get
it running again.
Due to the volatile political nature, the firm now
wished to relocate to a
more stable environment.
Interest had been
sparked by a recent Press release regarding the promotion
of tourism and
conservation of wildlife in Zambia.
The would-be investors further said
the nature of the project was labour
intensive and the duo, inclusive of the
management team at Lion and Cheetah
Park, would need to employ a local
workforce of between 30-80 people.
This figure would be expected to
increase to over 100 within 12 months as
the venture stabilises.
The
Gallaghers said despite being in contact with the Zambian mission in
London,
they would appreciate any help they could receive locally.
CNN
'Mercenary' arrests cause stir across Africa
Tuesday, March 9,
2004 Posted: 7:07 PM EST (0007 GMT)
DAKAR, Senegal (Reuters) -- An aging
American cargo plane and its burly
white passengers detained in Zimbabwe
became the focus of fresh African
conspiracy theories Tuesday when tiny,
oil-rich Equatorial Guinea accused
them of plotting a coup.
Zimbabwean
President Robert Mugabe's government, bitterly at odds with the
United States
and old European colonial powers, put its army on full alert
after arresting
64 South Africans and others aboard the Boeing 727 and
branding them
"suspected mercenaries."
But attention shifted sharply to the west coast
Tuesday when Equatorial
Guinea, already in the throes of coup rumors and an
army clampdown on
foreigners, said it had arrested another 15, including
South Africans. It
said they were the "advance party" for a coup by those
seized in Harare,
Zimbabwe late on Sunday.
The plane's operator, based in
Britain's Channel Islands, insisted however
that the aircraft, sold by a U.S.
firm a week ago, was on a legitimate
business mission.
It was flying
security men from South Africa to guard mines in the
Democratic Republic of
Congo, the firm told Reuters. It declined to name its
customers,
however.
Zimbabwe's alarm for its own security appeared to be easing by late
Tuesday,
when the interior ministry said it believed Harare had been a mere
stopover
en route for a final destination in or around the mining area of
eastern
Congo.
In Malabo, capital of the sleepy former Spanish colony of
Equatorial Guinea,
speculation over a possible thwarted coup remained
intense, however,
diplomats and officials contacted by telephone
said.
"Some 15 mercenaries have been arrested here," Information Minister
Agustin
Nse Nfumu said. "It was connected with that plane in Zimbabwe. They
were the
advance party of that group."
One senior foreign diplomat in
Malabo said: "There was an attempted coup
which was foiled. It was intense
yesterday evening but now the tension has
dropped. The town is
calm."
Small nation on edge
Equatorial Guinea had been rounding up African
foreigners since Saturday
amid tensions within President Teodoro Obiang
Nguema Mbasogo's clan, which
largely controls the nation of just half a
million that is one of Africa's
biggest oil producers.
Obiang seized power
from his uncle in 1979 and has been wooed by Nigeria and
Western oil firms.
Human rights groups accuse Obiang of jailing and
torturing
opponents.
Nfuma said the 15 suspects arrested in Equatorial Guinea had
arrived in
December, and one had confessed to acting for a Lebanese
businessman close
to Severo Moto, president of a self-styled
"government-in-exile."
Moto was once arrested in Angola and exiled to Spain
for plotting a coup in
his homeland, where Frederick Forsyth wrote a classic
1970s tale of
mercenary skulduggery, "The Dogs of War."
Zimbabwe said the
men held in Harare were mainly Angolans, South Africans
and Namibians. The
plane carried no firearms but did contain uniforms, tools
and camp
equipment.
Charles Burrows, a senior executive of Logo Logistics Ltd, who
said his firm
was chartering the plane, said most of those on board had
military
experience but were security guards who had stopped in Zimbabwe to
pick up
mining equipment.
Asked about the accusation by Equatorial Guinea,
he said: "I haven't the
foggiest idea of what they're talking
about."
South Africa's government, which is trying to shake the country's
reputation
as a source of guns for hire across the continent, reacted with
concern and
said if any South Africans were involved in mercenary activities,
it would
be a "serious breach" of the law.
CNN
South Africa battles image as home to 'dogs of
war'
Tuesday, March 9, 2004 Posted: 7:06 PM EST (0006
GMT)
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) -- The arrest of suspected
mercenaries
in Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea has raised accusing fingers in
the
direction of South Africa, battling to shed its image as the world's
biggest
supplier of dogs of war.
The toppling of apartheid white rule in
1994 ended South Africa's
years of military confrontation with its black
neighbours but left a large
pool of trained soldiers available as hired guns
in trouble spots from
Sierra Leone to Iraq.
South Africans have
for years rivalled the band of hardened war dogs
led by veteran French
mercenary chief Bob Denard, whose exploits in trouble
spots across Africa
since the 1960s have become part of the continent's
folklore.
These days Private Military Companies, as the guns for hire groups
prefer to
be known, can be found operating out of countries around the
world,
recruiting former special forces soldiers and increasingly opening
offices in
Eastern Europe.
"The Ukrainians are the cheap hired muscle at the
moment. But the
quality is low," one English-based PMC operative told Reuters
on condition
of anonymity.
The Zimbabwe government said on
Monday it had impounded a
U.S.-registered Boeing 727-100 aircraft at Harare
airport on Sunday which it
said was carrying 64 suspected mercenaries and a
cargo of military gear.
On Tuesday Equatorial Guinea, an
impoverished and unstable state
wedged between Nigeria and Cameroon, said it
had arrested 15 mercenaries and
linked them to the Zimbabwe
plane.
The plane's operators, Logo Logistics Ltd, said the group in
Harare
were in transit to the Democratic Republic of Congo for mine security
and
logistical work.
Its spokesman Charles Burrows told Reuters
most of the group were
South Africans and had military
experience.
"We're prone to use people with some military training
to work in
difficult places because they cope better and they know what they
are
doing," Burrows said.
South Africa reacts
Even
before the nationalities of the passengers on the plane was made
public,
South Africa said it had unconfirmed reports that they included its
own
nationals.
"Should the allegations that those South Africans on
board are
involved in mercenary activities prove true, this would amount to a
serious
breach of the Foreign Military Assistance Act," Deputy Foreign
Minister Aziz
Pahad said in a statement.
South Africa has passed
a number of laws to stem the flow of
mercenaries overseas, and last year
prosecuted the first defendant -- a
French-born naturalised South African --
for recruiting other mercenaries in
the country.
Intelligence
and security sources in Johannesburg say well over 1,000
armed South African
former military personnel are currently employed in all
manner of security
duties in Iraq, some working for the United Nations. High
pay, which
contrasts with South Africa's own low pay levels for police and
security
work, is part of the attraction.
Arms expert Garth Shelton at
Johannesburg's Witwatersrand University
said it was hardly surprising that
South Africa was awash with hired guns
after years of active military
involvement in Angola and Namibia.
"Their only skills are military.
They are not computer operators, so
they are looking for jobs where they can
use their military skills," Shelton
told Reuters.
Shelton said
he had been approached by owners of South African
"security" companies
seeking work for their men abroad.
"One told me he had quite a
number of people who were well trained,
former South African Defence Forces
(personnel) and he was looking to send
them anywhere in the world," he
said.
"He could provide them at short notice and he asked me if I
knew any
country in need of such people."
Security consultant
Herman van der Linde said people were too focused
on South Africa's image as
a mercenary exporter.
"The government is saying they don't want
these guys in the military
anymore. They are working as security guards
everywhere and everybody is
screaming 'mercenary,"" said van der Linde of
Pretoria-based private
think-tank Executive Research Associates.
ABC Australia
Zimbabwe journalists accused of joining US-UK
plot
Zimbabwe's Government has accused some Zimbabwean journalists of working
as
"mercenaries" for what it called an American and British-backed plot
to
destroy the country, and warned it would deal with them.
President
Robert Mugabe's Government has maintained severe pressure on the
media in the
last two years with a set of tough media laws in the face of a
political and
economic crisis.
In a strongly-worded statement, Information Minister
Jonathan Moyo said a
number of Zimbabwean journalists had found "the promise
of dirty American
money" too tempting and were destroying Zimbabwe from
within.
Mr Moyo did not give details of his allegations but said the
government had
"concrete evidence" some journalists were undermining national
security as
part of a US and British quest for regime change in
Zimbabwe.
He praised Zimbabwe's state-owned newspaper group Zimpapers,
which recently
fired three journalists for working without permission for
Voice of America
radio.
"Mercenaries of any kind, whether carrying the
sword or the pen, must and
will be exposed, and will suffer the full
consequences of the law," Mr Moyo
said.
"No media organisation,
certainly not Zimpapers, will be forced to employ's
Bush's and Blair's media
mercenaries, whose mission is to destroy Zimbabwe
from within - that will
just not happen," he said.
In the same statement, Mr Moyo said the
Government, which has launched an
anti-corruption drive that has seen the
arrest of prominent ruling party
officials, would launch a probe into the
foreign currency dealings of
journalists.
"As nobody is above the law
... legal action will be taken," he said.
Mr Mugabe's Government insists
the 2002 media laws are necessary to restore
professionalism in
journalism.
It accuses the private media of leading a propaganda campaign
by opponents
of its policy of seizing white-owned farms for landless
blacks.
-- Reuters
SABC
15:24:54
South Africans on board
impounded plane
March 09, 2004,
22:00
The foreign affairs department confirmed today
that there
were 20 South Africans in the group of people detained in Zimbabwe
as
suspected mercenaries.
Ambassador Jerry Ndou met
Zimbabwean authorities today, to
find out details on the detention and
impounding of a Boeing 707-100 that
landed at Harare International Airport on
Sunday evening, said Ronnie
Mamoepa, the foreign affairs spokesperson. He
said: "All detainees are being
held in a local prison. Apart from the South
Africans there are 18
Namibians, 23 Angolans, three Congolese and one
Zimbabwean national."
If the South Africans were indeed
implicated in mercenary
activities, this would be in breach of the Foreign
Military Assistance Act,
Mamoepa reiterated. Yesterday Kembo Mohadi,
Zimbabwe's home affairs
minister, announced the impounding of a US-registered
aeroplane which he
said contained military equipment and 64 suspected
mercenaries. Rumours have
since abounded about the occupants, destination,
and ownership of the
aircraft.
Latest reports state
it was indeed carrying mercenaries,
employed to assassinate the president of
Equatorial Guinea. Agustin Nse
Nfumu, the information minister of Equatorial
Guinea, said his government
had detained 15 suspected mercenaries, and
declared they were an "advance
party" for the group of 64 on board the
impounded aircraft. He said the
leader of the group, a white South African
called "Mick", had confessed to a
plot to kill the
president.
However, the firm Logo Logistics Ltd claimed
to have
contracted the mysterious aircraft to carry mining contractors to
the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In a statement, Logo Logistics said
that
"contrary to some reports they (the people on board the aeroplane)
are
contracted to provide a range of services to mining clients, including
logis
tics, support services, asset and human security, and
communications".
What had been described as "military"
items on board were
in fact equipment such as boots, pipe-bending and
wire-cutting tools, the
firm declared. It confirmed that some of the
contractors on board were South
African citizens and denied they had broken
any South African laws. "We
appreciate that the South African government may
wish to debrief its
citizens on their return from their ordeal, but that is a
different matter."
The statement was not sourced to an
individual, giving
merely an e-mail address and a telephone contact number in
the United
Kingdom. This is answered by an electronic
message.
Plane not registered in
SA
Today South Africa's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
said
the cargo plane was not registered in South Africa. The CAA also
confirmed
that the Boeing 727-100 departed from Polokwane International
Airport on
Sunday. Whether it flew directly to Zimbabwe was not known, the
agency said.
Logo says its equipment is normally
acquired in South
Africa. It did not give details on the flight path of the
aircraft before it
entered Zimbabwean air space.
He
said: "We can make it clear that we have no current or
intended business in
Zimbabwe and certainly no illegal intentions against
its government and
people."
The company says it was aware of the
political
sensitivities of the Zimbabwean
government.
Logo Logistics says their first concern was
the welfare of
the contractors. "They and their families have had an
extremely distressing
time. It is our intention that they return to their
homes for a few days to
recuperate before recommencing
work."
The company's website states that it has so far
operated
in African countries such as Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo, Angola,
Zambia
and Mozambique. "Common key attributes" found in staff in its
service
include "discretion, political sensitivity, (and) military
experience".
Services offered by Logo Logistics include "risk intelligence
and
assessment, support helicopter operations, service support in
harsh
environments, (and) rough field and parachute air
re-supply".
Mamoepa says the South African embassy
would continue to
liaise with the Zimbabwean authorities as they investigate
the incident. -
Sapa
ABC Australia
South Africa urged to increase pressure on
Zimbabwe
Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer is urging South Africa to
put more
pressure on Zimbabwe to end human rights abuses.
Mr Downer
says there are reports of youth camps in Zimbabwe, where people
are trained
to attack President Robert Mugabe's political opponents.
He says more
than half the population there is suffering from food
shortages, largely
because of the Zimbabwean Government's economic
mismanagement.
Mr
Downer says it is time for the international community to take
action.
"The African countries ... particularly South Africa if I may say
so, has an
enormous responsibility to place pressure on President Mugabe," Mr
Downer
said.
"To be frank, I don't think South Africa has put enough
pressure on the
regime up until now and we would urge the South African
Government to
strengthen the measures it takes to try to get the Mugabe
regime to see
sense."
Clearing of Land At Ranch Slow - Mudenge
The Herald
(Harare)
March 10, 2004
Posted to the web March 9,
2004
Harare
Masvingo North MP, Cde Stan Mudenge, has expressed
concern at the slow pace
at which the 150 000 hectares of irrigable land at
Nuanetsi Ranch in the
Lowveld is being cleared amid reports that progress is
being slowed by
obsolete machinery.
So far only about 800ha of land
have been cleared according to figures made
available by the Agricultural
Rural Development Authority which has so far
planted about 100ha of
sorghum.
Clearing of land is being done by a Chinese company, China
International
Water and Electric Corporation, together with the Central
Mechanical
Equipment Department, which is a sub-contractor.
Speaking
at a Masvingo provincial development council meeting in Masvingo
last week,
Cde Mudenge, who is also the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
lamented the slow
pace in clearing land at the ranch.
"There has not been much that has
been done in clearing land at Nuanetsi
Ranch and Arda and the Chinese company
have not done enough. At least much
more land should have been cleared to
grow some winter maize and some wheat.
"There is enough water for
irrigation at Mutirikwi Dam and there must be no
excuse that the
Tokwe-Murkosi dam has not been built. There must be progress
by June this
year," said Cde Mudenge.
He said there was a lot of international
interest in the Nuanetsi project
and that there were possibilities of
enticing Botswana into a joint
partnership in the project since the country
imports most of its food.
"Nuanetsi is a star project that has excited
the interest of the
international community and there is keen interest by
many people on its
progress," he said.
Masvingo governor Cde Josaya
Hungwe said clearing and planting were
simultaneously going on at the ranch
but conceded that there was a problem
with most of the bulldozers, which were
obsolete.
"What also contributed to the delay in clearing the land was
the method used
whereby trees were felled and then harvested
later.
"Now they are removing the fallen trees as they fell them, which
is faster,"
Cde Hungwe said.
He said plans were underway to deploy
about 10 000 youths to the area to
assist in the clearing and preparing of
the land for planting.
Clearing of land at Nuanetsi, which had been slow,
received a major boost
when the Government availed $5 billion for the project
in a supplementary
budget in August last year resulting in work starting at
the site.
This year the Government has allocated $7 billion for the
project which if
fully completed has the capacity to produce over 2 million
tonnes of
irrigated maize a year.
iafrica.com
'Known SA mercenary' on seized plane
Posted Wed, 10 Mar
2004
An aircraft seized by the Zimbabwe government on Sunday was carrying
men
believed to be linked to a South African mercenary company and to the
elite
British Special Air Services regiment, the Zimbabwe government said
on
Tuesday night.
It indicated the group had come to collect weapons
bought in Zimbabwe.
Home affairs minister Kembo Mohadi said on state
television that on board
the flight were 20 South Africans, 32 Angolans, 18
Namibians, two from the
Democratic Republic of Congo and a Zimbabwean with a
South African passport.
The spokesperson for the group appeared to be
Simon Witherspoon, "a known
South African mercenary who has operated in
various countries in Africa,
including Cote d'Ivoire," he
said.
Witherspoon had served in the South African defence forces until
1989 and
then joined alleged mercenary company Executive Outcomes, he said.
He did
not elaborate on their alleged connection to the British special
forces
regiment.
Captain gave wrong information
When the
aircraft landed at Harare international airport, its captain had
said the
plane contained no cargo and only seven passengers, he said.
"Contrary to
the information... 64 male adults were found on the plane,"
he
said.
The aircraft was met by an "advance party" of three men.
Mohadi named one of
them as Simon Mann. He said Mann and another he named as
Nicholas du Toit
had arrived in Zimbabwe earlier and stated they wanted to
buy arms there to
sponsor an armed rebel group in Angola.
"But they
later changed their story (to) that they wanted to protect a
mining concern
in the DRC."
A spokesperson for the British-based company, Logo
Logistics, that owns the
aircraft said earlier in London on Tuesday that the
group was on its way to
do demining work in the DRC.
Mohadi said that
Zimbabwe did not appear to be the group's
final
destination.
Sapa
The Vanguard, Nigeria
VANGUARD COMMENT:- Agriculture: Hopes
rekindled - 3
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
THOSE who express anxieties concerning the place of the peasant
farmers in a
large- scale farming economy may have a point. They are a dying
breed
anyway.
Because of the archaic methods they employ they cannot
produce on the
scale necessary to feed the population at competitive prices.
The truth is
that in advanced economies a very small number of farmers
provide for entire
populations.
Large-scale mechanised farming
is the only method that can cope with
the demand of today and the future.
Then the unviable hands go into down
stream industries created by large scale
farming.
Areas like canning, bottling, plastic manufacturing, crown
corks and
so on are usually beneficiaries.
What the organisers
and the government should design into their
programmes is the transition of
those who will eventually be displaced.
What we stand to gain from
improved agriculture is infinitely much
more than what we stand to lose. And
we do not know what we gain as it is.
We have highlighted in our
leaders on this page a number of times that
we are not taking advantage of
the great agricultural potentials of this
great country.
We had
emphasised that if we did, the oil earnings, however much,
would be just the
icing on the cake. We have been categorical that we could
earn income from
rice that would pay for most of our imports; that we could
do the same from
our maize production. Ditto for some of our other grains.
To earn
more from these crops from which we have natural advantage
would de-emphasise
our reliance on oil income and diffuse the perennial
tension on revenue
allocation. The polity can only gain from ensuing
stability and
equanimity.
We must explain that the situation of Zimbabwe is
different from the
situation in Nigeria. For Zimbabwe it is political and
cultural. The
dismissed farmers were settlers and once privileged political
masters. Here
in Nigeria the Zimbabwe farmers will be merely investors with
no more status
than that. They will be subject to our laws, subject to some
qualifications,
as individuals and as corporate bodies. They will be coming
into our lands
with no special rights.
Nothing has gladdened our
hearts in recent years as these expressions
of interest. We hope the
government will do nothing to dampen this hope.
The Telegraph
Harare accuses ex-SAS man of links to detained
'mercenaries'
By Tim Butcher in Johannesburg and Peta Thornycroft in
Harare
(Filed: 10/03/2004)
Zimbabwe yesterday accused a former SAS
officer from Britain of being
involved with an aircraft detained at Harare
airport allegedly carrying
military equipment and 64 "suspected
mercenaries".
Kembo Mohadi, Zimbabwe's home affairs minister, alleged
that Simon Mann, a
former SAS officer living in Cape Town, where he is in the
security
business, had travelled earlier to Zimbabwe and went to Harare
airport to
meet the aircraft.
But when the authorities searched the
aircraft it was found to have filed an
incorrect passenger list and to be
carrying what Mr Mohadi described as
"military materiel".
While there
is no suggestion of any attempt to destabilise Robert Mugabe's
regime the
incident will be treated as a PR coup by his government and an
acute
embarrassment for Britain. Mr Mugabe has repeatedly said MI6 and
British
security services are operating in Zimbabwe.
Although Mr Mann has long
been retired from the British Army he remains
connected with the world of
security consultants.
It is not known whether he was detained, although
Mr Mohadi said the 64
"suspected mercenaries" were led by a "known
mercenary", Simon Witherspoon,
a white South African.
Mr Mohadi
claimed that of the 64 men from the seized aircraft 20 were South
Africans,
18 Namibians, 23 Angolans, two Congolese and one a Zimbabwean
using a South
African passport.
The ultimate destination of the aircraft remained
unclear last night,
although the tiny oil-rich African country of Equatorial
Guinea yesterday
said it had arrested 15 suspected mercenaries which it
claimed were
connected with the 64-strong group.
But another version
was that the men were part of a security company
contracted to provide
perimeter security for mining operations in the
Democratic Republic of Congo
and had stopped in Zimbabwe for supplies.
Agustin Nse Nfumu, information
minister in Equatorial Guinea, said the 15
were an advance party for the
group arrested on Sunday night when a
US-registered charter plane was
impounded at Harare International Airport.
Rumours have been circulating
in Malabo, capital of the former Spanish
colony, about an imminent coup and
Mr Nfumu alleged that the men were part
of a plot to remove President Teodoro
Obiang. He has been in power since a
bloody coup in 1979.
Control of
Equatorial Guinea has become more important in the last decade
since vast oil
reserves were found in its off-shore waters. It is the third
largest producer
of oil in sub-Saharan Africa after Nigeria and Angola,
producing 350,000
barrels a day.
While there was no independent confirmation of the claims,
a diplomatic
source in America gave them some credence, saying the aircraft
landed in
Zimbabwe to collect weapons produced by Zimbabwe Defence
Industries.
ZDI is run by Tshinga Dube, a close associate of President
Mugabe, and is
one of several Zimbabwean companies which are the subject of
strict economic
sanctions by the United States.
The source said an
apparent breakdown in communication among the elite who
run Harare airport
led to the aircraft being impounded once an irregularity
was found in its
manifest.
Mr Nfumu said the 15 detainees included white South Africans,
black South
Africans of Angolan origin, a German and others from Kazakhstan
and Armenia
who had been in Equatorial Guinea since December.
"Some 15
mercenaries have been arrested here . . . and it was connected with
that
plane in Zimbabwe," he said.
"They were the advance party of that
group."
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Please place my advert in the JAG
Classifieds
I am selling a Nokia 3210 in good condition for $350
000
contact Ivy Motsi on 253933/4 091 368 840
Ivy
Contact
on email address Quton@cottco.co.zw
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5.
Advert Received 2nd March 2004
Philatelists!
I have a complete set
of all Zimbabwe commemorative FDCs plus mint blocks
of 4 up to and including
the last edition. I also have several historical
FDCs pre - Independence
Rhodesia including Last Day of Rhodesia; First Day
of Zimbabwe; Rhodesia
Constitutional Agreement; Opening of First
Parliament;
End of British Rule
in Rhodesia, ( overprinted with Ceasefire Agreement
12th
December 1979);
1980 Independence Election etc.
I would welcome an expert's opinion/
valuation of my collection and might
be interested in selling.
Please
contact me on 091 606836 or 04 301872 or email
tinksbez@africaonline.co.zw
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6.
Advert Received 3rd March 2004
JAG: PSE PLACE IN YOUR ADVERTS FOR THE
NEXT 3 WEEKS.
SINCE NASHGO CEASED OPERATIONS IN AUGUST 2003 A NUMBER OF
ASSETS HAVE BEEN
DISPOSED OF AND THE BOARD HAS DECIDED TO PAY AN INTERIM
DIVIDEND. IF YOU
WISH TO QUALIFY FOR THIS DIVIDEND YOU MUST REPLY
IMMEDIATELY TO PO BOX EH
37 EMERALD HILL OR TO EMAIL toknlu@zol.co.zw WITH YOUR DETAILS AND
IN
PARTICULAR THE NAME IN WHICH YOU HOLD SHARES IN NASHGO.
ONLY THOSE
REPLYING WILL QUALIFY FOR THIS DIVIDEND. THERE COULD BE
FURTHER DIVIDEND PAY
OUTS AS AND WHEN SUBSEQUENT FUNDS BECOME AVAILABLE.
THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE
ALREADY REPLIED EITHER BY SNAIL MAIL OR EMAIL HAVE
BEEN REGISTERED. PLEASE
ADVISE ANYONE YOU KNOW OF WHO IS STILL A
SHAREHOLDER AND MAY NOT HAVE EMAIL.
ALL SHAREHOLDERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED BY
MAIL AT THEIR LAST KNOWN
ADDRESSES
ANY QUERIES TO ABOVE EMAIL OR PHONE 04 333285 011 801
348.
H.P. (TOK) ARNOLD EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR
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7.
Advert Received 3rd March 2004
FARMER'S /BUSINESSMAN'S MASSAGE!
Ex
Farmers wife well versed in damage caused by stress and tension, is
thrilled
to be able to offer the benefits of the wonderful stress relieving
INDIAN
HEAD MASSAGE.
Aimed primarily at Office Dwellers spending their days
behind
desks/computers, this half hour massage sequence offers an amazing
relief
from stress and tension, detoxifying and rejuvenating the body,
promising
renewed enthusiasm towards daily life, to anybody suffering the
strains and
tensions of today's living in Zimbabwe!
I also offer a
half hour FOOT TREATMENT, giving a relaxing foot bath and
scrub, followed by
deep foot to knee massage. The combination of these two
sequences needs to be
experienced, to be believed!
Come and enjoy one or both of these
treatments in a tranquil environment,
sitting under the trees in the
luxurious garden at
the suburban home from where I work.
OR
With the
minimum requirement of four people wanting treatments , I will
visit YOU at
YOUR premises.
IDEAL GIFT FOR YOUR SPOUSE OR STRESSED OUT BOSS! GIFT
VOUCHERS AVAILABLE!
Please phone Wendy on 744616 (Business) 335901 (Home)
or 011
205459.
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8.
Advert Received 3rd March 2004
Please could you advertise the following
for sale items:
FOR SALE
MILL DRILL WITH 1 METRE BED - $ 35
million o.n.c.o.
BAND SAW FOR STEEL - 250 DEPTH CUT - $ 80 million
o.n.c.o.
28FT CARAVAN - NEEDS ATTENTION - $ 5 million
o.n.c.o.
Please phone : Ben 091400240 or Eunice 091244185
Many
thanks
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9.
Advert Received 5th March 2004
Dear JAG,
Kindly circulate the
following info to the addresses on your data base...
it may be of interest to
an ex-farmer wishing to immigrate to Australia:
For Sale: Premium Olive
Plantation (Gingin West - Western Australia -
Approx. 1hrs drive North West
of Perth)
Features:
11,850 Olive Trees - 4 Varieties (Roughly 15
Months Old)
Sold with all Plant and Machinery
Modern Fully Reticulated
Plantation
Excellent Water Licence
Hard Work All Completed
Sold as a
Going Concern - Zero GST (Subject to individual buyers
classification)
For
further information, as well as a colour brochure with photos, kindly
contact
the undersigned.
Many thanks and kind regards,
Denis
Sauzier
Tel: (+263 4) 335133
Fax: (+263 4) 332566
Cell: (+263)
91600200
email: saurel@mweb.co.zw
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10.
WINTER CRICKET
The Spirit of Wedza
A collection of
biographies, articles, recollections and
memories (by and about the people of
Wedza) compiled by Sheila
Macdonald
Limited number of copies available
at the JAG Office.
Hardback $140 000
Softback $120
000
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Advert Received 9th March 2004
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Please may
you place the following equipment in your classifieds.
JCB 4WD 3 CXT SSE
1997
4103 Hours
GOOD CONDITION ALL ROUND
EXTRAS: HYDRAULIC ROCK
BREAKER, 2 SPARE BUCKETS. ALL BUSHES RE-DONE
HIGHEST OFFER
SECURES
Contact: 011 608 474 or email tropex@zol.co.zw
BULLDOZER D4E
8498
Hours
EXTRAS: SPARE TRACKS, BOTH SETS NEED RECONDITIONING. OFF ROAD
TRACTOR
DRAWN TRAILER
HIGHEST OFFER SECURES
Contact: 011 608 474 or
email tropex@zol.co.zw
Many thanks
and could you email me the charge and your AC Details.
Yours
faithfully
Heidi Faydherbe