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Old 05-23-2007, 22:33 PM   #9 (permalink)
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I have no idea about history of Zimbabwe and Australia or Howard and Mugabe..does it because of political conflict or it was just a plain human rights issue?
A human rights issue, but also that Mugabe helps himself to the profits from the television rights.
As Bigfella points out, Howard has come recently to the issue having opposed any sporting boycott of South Africa during the apartheid era. I suspect that his opposition may be more aligned with the finance issue, i.e. they'd be putting money in Mugabe's pocket.
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