{"id":10001,"date":"2012-04-17T16:20:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/corrected-newsmaker-zimbabwes-tyson-goes-the-distance-with-foreign-firms\/"},"modified":"2012-04-17T16:20:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:20:53","slug":"corrected-newsmaker-zimbabwes-tyson-goes-the-distance-with-foreign-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/corrected-newsmaker-zimbabwes-tyson-goes-the-distance-with-foreign-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"CORRECTED-NEWSMAKER-Zimbabwe’s "Tyson" goes the distance with foreign firms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Clarifies Kawukuwere is youngest in cabinet from ZANU-PF para
\n9)<\/span><\/p>\n

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* Minister forces miners to turn over stakes to locals<\/p>\n

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* Says can’t have “islands of prosperity, seas of poverty”<\/p>\n

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* Touted as successor to 88-year-old Mugabe<\/p>\n

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By MacDonald Dzirutwe and David Dolan<\/p>\n

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HARARE\/JOHANNESBURG, April 16 (Reuters) – Nicknamed “Tyson”,
\nZimbabwe Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere doesn’t shrink
\nfrom a fight when it comes to taking on foreign companies that
\nown mineral rights in his country.<\/p>\n

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“Somebody has to get them to understand the message,” the
\nman who has forced global miners to give up majority stakes in
\ntheir Zimbabwe operations, told the Reuters Africa Investment
\nSummit in Johannesburg on Monday.<\/p>\n

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“You can’t continue with that old mentality of islands of
\nprosperity and seas of poverty, it just can’t work any more.
\nWhen we talk to these companies, we are not being malicious or
\ncruel, we are making them see the reality,” said Kasukuwere, who
\ntakes his nickname from the U.S. heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson.<\/p>\n

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Critics accuse the former officer in Zimbabwe’s feared
\nCentral Intelligence Organisation of acting outside the law in
\nforcing foreign companies to comply.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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