Top stories for July 16-20

Mugabe says Zimbabwe is going to wage an economic revolution– President Robert Mugabe today said Zimbabwe was going to wage an economic revolution using its natural resources to transform the gains of the liberation struggle into tangible wealth for the people. “We will be talking about how we can, together, once again, help each other now in our socio-economic programmes — another revolution to develop our countries so the fruits of what we fought for together can be yielded by yet another struggle, joint struggle, but this time a peace and economic struggle that we shall be waging with our natural resources so we can produce the necessary wealth for our people,” he told a visiting Chinese delegation. “Our relations with China are historical relations, they are revolutionary relations. We related to China for a long, long time during our struggle before our independence. We do not forget that and the Chinese people are our greatest friends in the international arena. We regard them really as part of us. So, when we get the people from China coming here they are coming to a country they helped to liberate. This is also part of their own world, part of their own country. So we are very happy.” Guo Jin Long who led the Chinese delegation said: “Strengthening the solidarity and cooperation relations with African countries has been a cornerstone of China’s diplomatic strategy. As Mr Xi Jinping, our President puts it, China and African countries have always been a community of shared faith and we are brothers of shared faith.”

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Men and women, disputes, promotions and sexual favours

Why is it that whenever a dispute arises between a man and a woman, the first thing that comes into a man’s mind is to ask for sexual favours? I wonder! Why is it that, always men to ensure that a woman takes a higher position from where she would be, if the man is the head, he has to again ask for sexual favours which we now call sexual harassment if it is at work?

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Developing countries not likely to benefit from trade liberalisation

LONDON – Since 2008, global trade has grown slightly more slowly than global GDP. The Doha Round of World Trade Organization negotiations ended in failure. Transatlantic and transpacific trade negotiations are progressing slowly, held back by the resistance of special interests. But, though many experts fear that protectionism is undermining globalization, threatening to impede global economic growth, slower growth in global trade may be inevitable, and trade liberalization is decreasingly important.

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Tsvangirai hits back at Mugabe

President Robert Mugabe should focus on reviving the country’s economy instead of focusing on Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s sex life, Tsvangirai’s spokesman Luke Tamborinyoka said in a statement today.

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