1.   The other finalists -- Rethabila Consortium, Ukhozi Sanco Consortium, Phoenix Venture Partners, Maru Investment Holdings -- are all black empowerment groups.

2.   This has not gone over well with patient empowerment groups, some of whom receive direct funding from the federal Center for Mental Health Services.

3.   Virgin is bidding together with six black empowerment groups which include Sarhwu Investment Company, Women in Capital Growth, the National Empowerment Corp and Bophirima Investment Holdings Ltd.

4.   In recent months, Mugabe has sided with militant black empowerment groups and accused many whites of resisting black advancement in their businesses.

5.   Instead, he led the Constitutional Assembly that wrote a new charter for South Africa while heading a black empowerment group that buys chunks of white-owned corporations.