Zim Govt Says Mnangagwa’s Re-Engagement Efforts Now ‘Paying Off’

While it has widely been argued by various critics that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF Government has dismally failed to re-engage with the global community in the three years that the septuagenarian has been in office, authorities in Harare say the Zimbabwe leader’s re-engagement drive has been paying dividends.

When he came to power on the back of a military coup that ousted the late long-ruling Robert Mugabe in November 2017, Mnangagwa told thousands of Zimbabweans who congregated at the giant National Sports Stadium that after years of sour relations with the global community under Mugabe, his New Dispensation was bent on re-engaging with the international community.

While bemoaning the existence of economic sanctions on Zimbabwe authorities by the West, Mnangagwa’s Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Sibusiso Moyo last Thursday told Parliament that the Government was satisfied with successes registered in strengthening relations, rebuilding broken ties and establishing new relationships with the international community. Zwnews/ State Media