Harare – Robert Mugabe jets into Harare today from a begging trip in China only holding a bag of secretive agreements and signatures but with no cash to revive an economy which is virtually on its knees.
Instead of raising hope among the suffering millions of Zimbabweans, most of whom cannot afford a meal a day, the deals Mugabe and his entourage of ministers sealed in China have become a cause for concern not only because industrialists were snubbed but due to the veil of secrecy attached to the agreements.
Information on the nurture of deals that Mugabe and his entourage have signed remains sketchy.
The State media claims the “mega deals” will in the long run breathe life into the comatose economy.
However, it is not clear how a broke government will repay China, and how the deals will ease the suffering of Zimbabweans blighted by shrinking incomes and failing social services. What China will get in return also remains another big question.
A close look at one of the so-called nine mega deals shows nothing extraordinary about the agreements at least in the economic sense, analysts said…
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