In the Zimbabwe Independent:
via All AfricaIndustrialisation is a central topic at this week's Sadc meetings. Why such a subject should be on the agenda for a meeting in Zimbabwe is a mystery as the country has been vigorously engaged in de-industrialisation for years.
image via Zimbabwe Independent
As a result, we have to import most of the goods found in the shops and we even have to import most of our food.
Not so many years ago, the lists of the consumer goods we made in Zimbabwe was one of the longest for any developing country and we exported an impressive range of foods in all their forms. Whether they were fresh, canned, milled, frozen or packaged in many different ways, our products from biscuits to dairy products, confectionary to stock-feeds were eagerly bought on many foreign markets...[continue reading]
