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    Zimbabwe state airline faces liquidation

    HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — State media says Zimbabwe's ailing national airline has been put under judicial management ahead of its likely liquidation.

    The Sunday Mail reported on Sunday that the High Court in Harare appointed an executive of a top independent accounting firm to takes charge of Air Zimbabwe, sweeping aside all powers of the board of directors.

    It said the court order Friday followed claims by pilots and employees for unpaid income and allowances of up to $35 million dating back to January 2009.

    Last month the former colonial-era airline, founded in 1964, paid $1.2 million to release an aircraft impounded over debts in Britain. It owes $140 million to its creditors and has now grounded all but some domestic flights.

     

    19 comments

    • timb  •  4 mths ago
      Lets just sit back and wait for some of the comments to roll in on this one. We will be told that it is the white mans fault. Colonialism is to blame. Sanctions are to blame, yada yada yada.
      Why doesn't old man Mugabe sell a few of his diamonds to get em out of the poop they're in?
      It comes down to the same old conclusion, give the job to an African and he will screw it up if he is unsupervised. The white Rhedesians have EVERY right to say I told you so.
      • Bigzvimbaz Bigzvimbaz 4 mths ago
        noone is going to say that you illiterate #$%$companies go bust all the time.its not the end of the world.Enron went bust.Whose fault was it.Kodak is going under right now.whose fault is it.go to school #$%$ and read some books.and lay off the sis for a while.its getting to your head.
      • AUSSEA 4 mths ago
        BIGBAZLOSER what a IDIOT you are --backing the worst run country in the world-you are on CRACK dipshit
    • Doubledutch  •  Houston, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      Actually, the soil isn't the same. The first thing the masters of African agriculture did upon seizing the farms was sell the irrigation equipment for scrap. They no longer have top soil. On the plus side, however, they have moved to better fit the African economic model of exporting disease, famine and genocide.
    • gojump  •  Houston, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      It's astonishing the airline is in so much trouble because nutjob Mugabe is apparently doing such a good job with the economy
    • GOLDENEYE  •  Nixa, Missouri  •  4 mths ago
      airline? oh they mean the big buzzard...lol
    • John  •  Federal Way, Washington  •  4 mths ago
      Air Zim', as recent as the 1990's was one of Africa's better airlines. A young Boeing fleet, good cabin service, healthy load factors, good management, little corruption and very few of the problems that cursed most other African carriers. Tourism was healthy and growing, but besides tourists, many of air Zim's PAX were the burgeoning Zimbabwean middle class. A social and economic, and business model that showed the rest of Africa that yes, a multi racial African society COULD grow, thrive, and cooperate for the betterment of all . . . . and create that rarely found African phenomenon . . . a Black middle class! Mugabe could have been a hero . . . BUT . . . the rest is history . . . as sadly DISGUSTING as it is . . .
      • AUSSEA 4 mths ago
        all that said the fact is the MURDER of the whites for the farms ,and selling the equipment for scrap-Mugabish could never have being a hero -just a thug
    • James Fogleman  •  Morrow, Louisiana  •  4 mths ago
      Zimbabwe = OWS dogma put into action.
    • Rickie  •  4 mths ago
      Way to go, Mugabe. Way to destroy what used to be the single most peaceful and prosperous nation in the entire African continent.
    • Matthew  •  4 mths ago
      How many planes do they have, one? Pathetic what has happened to the former "Breadbasket of the World."
    • Matthew  •  4 mths ago
      Is the runway paved?
    • JackS  •  4 mths ago
      Mugabe's throne couldn't fit through the doors anyway!
    • David  •  Aspen, Colorado  •  4 mths ago
      I worry for Zimbabwe. I got a few buddies over there in the safari industry. Mugabe is gonna croak soon. Who ever is gonna replace him will suck as well. Hope it doesn't get worse.
    • J.J.J.  •  4 mths ago
      There we go guys, Mugabe traveling "first class donkey" from now on, when (if may) Harare will demostrate against the "the ruler" like in the north?
    • Chuck  •  4 mths ago
      Flight of the Phoenix
      • timb 4 mths ago
        To the flames though, not from the flames
    • C. Scorzo  •  4 mths ago
      Last time I checked the soil is still the same as it was in 1979 when it was called Rhodesia and their was a surplus of food, and unemployment was in check. My family was lucky and we moved to Namibia, others were not and they were killed. Just because someone "gives" you a farm it does not mean that you can farm. Mugabe needs to leave or die.
      • timb 4 mths ago
        My dad farmed in Karoi. I will never set foot in that country again. They are animals and the world needs to be told the truth about them. I have had enough of the silence they enjoy while they violate human rights far beyond any Rhodesian ever did.
      • Fab221 4 mths ago
        Restore Rhodesia
    • AUSSEA  •  4 mths ago
      no surprise here MICKEY Mouse airline for a Mickey Mouse country-DEATH to MUGABISH NOW
    • m  •  Detroit, Michigan  •  4 mths ago
      If Zimbabwe had oil, Bush would have invaded it 10 years ago.
    • Sibosiso  •  Cedar Rapids, Iowa  •  4 mths ago
      He will pull something out - sell more land and minerals to the asians for planes and gun and what not.
    • john  •  Plainfield, Connecticut  •  4 mths ago
      these black savages cant do anything right
    • Bigzvimbaz Bigzvimbaz  •  Nonthaburi, Thailand  •  4 mths ago
      AMR,the parent company for American Airlines recently filed for bankruptcy protection.Blame Mugabe for that too.kikikiki.Airlines go bust all the time you morons.
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