Robert Mugabe has put the BP’s Zimbabwe operation at the top of the list for takeover under a new law to bring foreign companies under local control, write Michael Gwaridzo and Stephen Bevan.
He told a meeting of his ruling Zanu-PF party’s politburo that the oil giant would be one of the first companies to be targeted, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt.
Ministers said the move was intended as retaliation for what they claim is Britain’s “invisible hand” in a recent decision by Australia to expel eight students whose parents are senior Zimbabwean officials.
BP Zimbabwe, which is jointly owned by BP Africa and Shell, runs a network of 37 service stations and boasts that it has been “one of the biggest brands in Zimbabwe” for 40 years. It also supplies fuel and oil products to the aviation industry.
Mr Mugabe is said to have told the party meeting: “Britain and Australia have businesses here and we shall act accordingly to show them the way out. Their BPs will soon be a thing of the past because we have capable local entrepreneurs who can do a better job.” He said the seizures “must be sudden and without notice”.
Under the “indigenisation” law, likely be approved by parliament in the next few weeks, foreign-owned companies can be required to give up 51 per cent of their shares to “disadvantaged” Zimbabweans. However, the real beneficiaries are likely to be Mr Mugabe’s cronies and Zanu-PF officials.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
