Zimbabwe – President Robert Mugabe appealed for China’s financial support Wednesday as he vowed an economic revolution to transform the lives of his people – the majority still struggling 34 years after independence.
The veteran leader was speaking during a meeting with a visiting delegation from the Communist Party of China at his Zanu PF’s Harare headquarters.
Eleven months after he was returned to power after a [landslide] victory in last July’s elections Mugabe is under pressure as the economy, in the words of opposition legislator, Eddie Cross, refuses to vote for the 90-year-old and his Zanu PF party.
The Zanu PF leader rejects criticism that the country’s problems are largely down to the incompetence of his administration, blaming instead sanctions imposed by the West to punish his land reforms.
On Wednesday he met the Chinese delegation as his Finance Minister, Patrick Chinamasa and a member of Zanu PF’s politburo were in Beijing, pleading for billions of dollars to help stem the country’s economic slide.
Mugabe said he hoped China would support him as it did during the liberation struggle…
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