“…and as it turned out umph, I called Morgan Tsvangirai. I said to Morgan, “You cannot strike on that particular day!” Uh, he said,’why not?’ I said, “you’ve closed everything and it’s Econet’s public listing -you’re gonna be lynched!” He said, “you know I hadn’t thought of that – okay, we’ll move it to Monday.” So you know, I played my little role in history there. I could not persuade him not to strike though. Anyway, as it turned out it was a very successful public listing, uh we were oversubscribed and we entered the Zimbabwe stock exchange as the 72nd member of the exchange…”
– Strive Masiyiwa
(28 May 1998 –
??Harare International Conference Centre HICC)
Speaking about the listing of Econet on the ZSE