Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Killing the goose that laid the platinum egg

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=84&art_id=vn20050925110438460C272064

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Platinum giant Zimplats is the goose that lays the biggest and shiniest eggs in an otherwise bleak Zimbabwe, but President Robert Mugabe's desperate tax collectors nearly killed the goose last week.

Hours before the giant corporation prepared to shut off the giant furnace which spews out Zimbabwe's most reliable source of foreign currency, Deputy President Joseph Msika had to step in to stop an extraordinary and unprecedented calamity.

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