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'Zanu-PF govt must adopt sanctions busting measures'
29 Aug 2013 at 05:27hrs | Views
The West's refusal to lift the sanctions it imposed on Zimbabwe bids the incoming Zanu-PF government to adopt sanctions-busting measures, including reorienting the economy from the West to win-win partnerships with all-weather friends in the East to whom the Westerners are also turning.
Synergies with the West, analysts said, were accidents of history and legacies of colonialism, while links with the East were voluntary and had always been beneficial from the days of the liberation struggle.
Miffed by their failure to unseat President Mugabe and Zanu-PF for the third time since launching the MDC at the turn of the millennium, Western countries have refused to accept the results of harmonised elections they did not observe, saying the sanctions will remain as the "elections were not free and fair."
Synergies with the West, analysts said, were accidents of history and legacies of colonialism, while links with the East were voluntary and had always been beneficial from the days of the liberation struggle.
Miffed by their failure to unseat President Mugabe and Zanu-PF for the third time since launching the MDC at the turn of the millennium, Western countries have refused to accept the results of harmonised elections they did not observe, saying the sanctions will remain as the "elections were not free and fair."
Source - herald
