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Telecel Zimbabwe corporate rescue a legal nullity - Makamba

Hosia Mviringi Telecel Zimbabwe, the country’s third largest Mobile Network Operator, has refuted claims that the company has been put under Corporate Rescue Proceedings as claimed in a Notice published in the government Gazette of 12 May 2023. In a statement to shareholders and all stakeholders, the company, through its Board Chairman, Dr. James Makamba said that the legal process by the Communication and Allied Workers Union of Zimbabwe, which was used as the basis for the Corporate Rescue Proceedings was successfully challenged at the High Court, rendering the Notice a legal nullity. “Telecel Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd wishes to assure the public, stakeholders, creditors, and all interested Telecel persons that it continues to provide its services as normal. An invalid legal process by the Communication and Allied Workers Union of Zimbabwe was lodged in the High Court of Zimbabwe under HC 306/22 in October 2022 through Gumbo and Associates legal practitioners. That application was opposed. ...

After 23 years, UK-ZIM relations thawing

 #SundayMussings  Prof. Jonathan Moyo It's International Relations 101 that a penchant for and infatuation with trivialities is not part of diplomacy, it's trivial pursuit. With this in mind, one does not have to hold a brief for anyone to understand that the coronation of King Charles III was essentially a showcase of an archaic and obnoxious tradition of hereditary rule - frowned upon in most parts of the world now under republican rule of one sort or another, while still a big deal in the United Kingdom of once upon a time, Great Britain - that dates back some 1,000 years ago. There’s therefore nothing geopolitically significant or even interesting about that primitive culture, where someone called Charles was crowned head of state by virtue of his birth at a ceremony where "His Majesty's Government" had no qualms about displaying the full repertoire of imperial loot like the stolen African Star and majestic gold from former British colonies, many of whose lead...