PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's first State of the Nation address, delivered before a joint sitting of the National Assembly and the Senate yesterday, ticked all the correct boxes although, in the final analysis, it failed to proffer pragmatic remedies to pressing issues that assail the nation.
In a speech dominated by the "what" rather than the "how", he said his government would introduce an array of measures to boost the country's dwindling exports, fight corruption and cushion the local manufacturing sector to set Zimbabwe's fragile economy on a firm recovery trajectory.
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