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  and South Africa 86, 92, 93, 122, 125–6, 135, 136–9, 140, 143, 152, 158–9, 160, 162, 169, 171, 172, 175, 176–7, 187, 194, 202, 206, 208–10, 233, 242–6, 257–8, 264, 269, 273, 275

  and Spain 79, 86, 139–41, 143, 161, 175, 178, 184, 190, 191, 195, 204, 264, 266, 296

  and Thatcher 114, 120

  and USA 81, 83–4, 86, 88, 134, 167, 174, 185, 264

  weapons 146–53, 175–6

  World Bank 52, 269, 274

  Y

  YKA Mining 134

  Z

  Zafira oil field 54, 83

  Zambia 82, 148, 153, 161

  Zanu PF 177

  Zapiro 247

  ZDI see Zimbabwe Defence Industries

  Zimbabwe 44, 82, 148–52, 157, 159, 175, 177–82, 205, 213, 274–5

  arrest and trial of Wonga

  Coup plotters 181–2, 188–9, 194, 195, 201–15, 233–41, 260, 265, 275, 277–91, 292

  and the author 294

  and Britain 148–9, 177–8

  HIV/AIDS in 219, 275

  and Obiang 221, 275 see also Central Intelligence Organisation; Zimbabwe Defence Industries

  Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) 70, 148–52, 159, 162, 175, 180, 233, 265

  * Wonga n. Early twenty-first century British slang for money, usually a lot of it. A large splodge of wonga: great quantities of cash. Probably from the Romany word ‘wanger’, meaning coal. Coal served as a slang term for money in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England.