THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) has intensified the fight for the removal of illegal economic sanctions on Zimbabwe by launching a multi-pronged international diplomatic offensive. This was said by the bloc’s Executive Secretary, Dr Stergomena Tax, ahead of October 25, which the regional has set aside annually as the SADC Anti-Sanctions Day. In Zimbabwe, …
Harare – Zimbabwe has begun preparations for activities that will be held on the second day of solidarity with the country against illegal economic sanctions imposed by Western countries nearly two decades ago. SADC leaders adopted October 25 as the Day of Solidarity with Zimbabwe at their Heads of State and Government Summit in Tanzania …
The illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe are outdated and should be removed as they benefit neither Zimbabwe nor the United States, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Busi Moyo has said. He said this on Wednesday when he had lunch with the Westminster Africa Business Group in London, United Kingdom. Dr Moyo said the …
Following the adoption of October 25 as the Sadc Day of Solidarity Against Sanctions on Zimbabwe, the chair of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Cde Kindness Paradza (Zanu-PF) called on Zimbabweans and the world to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s socio-economic reform agenda. Here are excerpts of that interview. *** Q: …
Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, 17-18 August 2019 1. The 39th Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was held at Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, on the 17th and 18th …
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The illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West have cost the country billions of dollars in lost revenue and lines of credit, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Moyo has said. He said this when he appeared before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade to brief them on …
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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will lead the anti-sanctions crusade from the front, with Zimbabwe’s Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Forces expected to address tens of thousands of marchers in Harare next Thursday. The march is in support of the decision by the 16-member Southern African Development Community to declare October 25, …
War veterans have recommended that Government pronounce October 25, 2019 a public holiday. Sadc leaders recently declared October 25 as a day for the Southern Africa region to show solidarity with Zimbabwe in the fight against illegal Western sanctions, and war veterans say that historic gesture by the bloc would be well-complimented by making the …
African diplomats are solidly behind Zimbabwe in its fight against the two-decade-old illegal sanctions regime on the country. In a recent interview ahead of Sadc Solidarity Day Against Sanctions on Zimbabwe, Dean of the Africans Diplomatic Corps and DRC’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mwawapanga Mwana Nanga said the country had continent’s support. Sadc Heads of State …
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Industrialists have described Sadc’s decision to declare October 25, 2019 a solidarity day against illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe as historic, and requested the day be declared a national holiday. Zimbabwe National Business Council president Mr Langton Mabhanga said, “Sadc’s decision is plausible and historic. We have now been vindicated as a country that the Third …
