AFRICAN EYE

By Rawlings Magede I have always expressed misgivings towards President’s Emmerson Mnangagwa’s neo-liberalism route since he ascended to power in 2017.So determined has been the president that even when he took power, he deployed an offensive public relations team to sanitize him and project him as a reformist .For a moment, western countries particularly the UK warmed up to his call especially on the need for reform and mend broken bridges left by his predecessor, Robert Mugabe. When President Mnangagwa took oath of office his message was punctuated with hope and optimism. His message “Zimbabwe is open for business” soon became his clarion call whenever he was interviewed by international media. So charmed were the Breton Woods institutions that in April 2019, a team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced of an agreement that it had reached with the Zimbabwean government on macroeconomic policies and structural reforms that underpinned a Staff Mo