ZIMBABWE - HARARE - The Bush administration is imposing financial sanctions on four people it calls "cronies" of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe whose support it says allowed Mugabe to undermine democracy.

 

The Treasury Department said in a statement Tuesday that it was designating John Bredenkamp for using a "sophisticated web of companies" to prop up Mugabe's government financially.

 

Treasury also designated Muller Conrad Rautenbach, a Zimbabwean businessman; Nalinee Joy Taveesin, a Thai businesswoman; and Mahmood Awang Kechik, a Malaysian urologist.

 

 

 

 

 

Any bank accounts or other financial assets belonging to those designated and found in the United States must be frozen under the order.

 

Americans also are prohibited from transacting business with them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOKE OF THE DAY - Girl Died After illness, before burial her granny saw the g-string she had. Granny remarked "Chirwere chakaoma ichi! Chakadya mwana chikadya bhurugwa kusiya tambo chete!"

 

 

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