Archive for February2010
Zim in bid to raise US$50 million from Diaspora
ZIMBABWE'S begging bowl will be extended to the Diaspora once again as the country seeks to raise US$50 million to help finance the rebuilding of the economy. The fund-raising initiative will be carried out through the floating of a Diaspora Bond to enlist the services of non-resident Zimbabweans in the reconstruction of the country.
Continue readingZimbabwean Ministers Urge Exiled Businessmen to Return Home
Two senior cabinet ministers encourage successful entrepreneurs in neighbouring South Africa to help revive moribund economy Zimbabwe's two home affairs (Interior) ministers earlier this month told a gathering of successful Zimbabwean businessmen in Johannesburg that the government of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai wants them to return to help revive the economy. Mr. Mugabe's ZANU-PF party and Mr. Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change jointly run the Home Affairs portfolio in the power-sharing government that emerged one year ago.
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