NEWS ANALYSIS: High-powered Zimbabwean delegation on mission impossible to SA
Presidential hopeful Emmerson Mnangagwa has had some success reforming agriculture, but has his work cut out selling the country to SA investors
Selling Zimbabwe to foreign investors is tough. Party infighting in the ruling Zanu (PF), an economic meltdown worsened by severe cash shortages and anxiety over the outcome of polls due in about 12 months’ time, in which President Robert Mugabe is expected to stand for an eighth consecutive term, make the country unlikely as an investor’s paradise. A high-powered Zimbabwean delegation — led by vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa, touted as a frontrunner to succeed Mugabe — is expected to court investors in SA this weekend at the Zimbabwe-SA Forum in Sandton. The investment conference begins on Friday and ends on Saturday. The choice of Mnangagwa as a keynote speaker will give him the ears of investors and politicians in Africa’s most industrialised nation. Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to attend the conference.Mnangagwa’s ability to effect changes to economic policy while Mugabe is in power is limited. He is nonetheless basking in the success of the "command agricultur...
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