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US$42 billion and counting … here is the cost of sanctions to Zimbabwe

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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ED leads from the front

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, …

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You will never walk alone, diplomats tell Zimbabwe

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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Industry hails ‘historic’ turning point

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 …

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Communiqué of the 39th sadc Summit of Heads of State and Government

Communiqué of the 39th sadc Summit of Heads of State and Government, Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, 17-18 August 2019 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 …

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Critics start to see the light

International organisations are adding their weight to the Southern African Development Community’s demand for an end to illegal Western sanctions on Zimbabwe. Sadc, at its recent Summit in Tanzania, declared October 25, 2019 a Solidarity Day Against Sanctions on Zimbabwe. Now, other international organisations – some of them openly hostile to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration …

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