TIME FOR A CHANGE, page-19

Tolate, it wouldn't hurt if you considered showing some gratitude, appreciation and loyalty to Nigel and the board - look how far they had managed to get - 4 May 2022, MoM's decree to award the ML. Only then, days before our mining licence was due, the Chinese started to stir the **** and all other shifty operators followed...

....and AVZ has accomplished all this in a country (in part under Kabila junior) where brown paper bags get things done while AVZ, like other western companies, are constrained and disadvantaged by the international laws prohibiting bribery. Not to mention troublemakers like shorters from Boatman, AFR's Tom Richardson and others.