Zimbabwe: Is It Time for Diplomatic Service Reform?

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Last week this column expressed outrage at the treatment of Zimbabwe's foreign-based diplomats by the parent ministry. The irony of the whole matter is that the ministry has former diplomats heading it. People that have been there and people that know how important it is to be given resources for one to function in a foreign land. The nation will be pleased to learn that there have been positive responses to criticism from the ministry. When the nation cries for a listening Government, this is all it wants.

In the comments section of the op-ed there were two contrasting views. One view was that Zimbabwe cannot afford 43 missions on a paltry $36.9 million budget for the whole ministry. Zimbabwe should cut its cloth according to its own fiscal size. A case for rationalisation of the number of missions as well as the size of personnel in these missions was made.

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