Zimbabwe: Let's Rethink Our Indigenisation and Land Laws

28 January 2015
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FOLKS, this is serious stuff. Something in Zimbabwe has to give in. I don't normally take such an alarmist position, but I believe that we are near a tipping point and I think the increased unemployment is a catalyst to reaching that tip.

The level of unemployment has reached alarming and unsustainable levels due to massive retrenchments, alarming levels of deindustrialization, exporting of jobs to South Africa and China due to high imports, high sovereign risk, institutional rigidities, low foreign direct investment which is all leading to massive despair, poverty, idleness, possible seething anger and a nation of nothing else except vending.

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