Mugabe's Mega Deals suffer stillbirth

Two years after President Robert Mugabe's government announced and signed a number of much hyped mega deals with Zimbabwe's supposed all weather friends China and Russia, very little is happening on the ground to suggest that the deals will take off anytime soon.

Investigations show that even the equally much vaunted investment in Zimbabwe by Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote remain pie in the sky talk that only occasionally pops in lapdog State media when propaganda merchants are desperate for a deceptive, feel good story.

Economic experts said the deals were being hammered by corruption and policy inconsistencies which had seen Chinese firm Anjin Investments being suspiciously boots out of the Marange Diamond fields.