The perennial political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe has wreaked havoc with the country’s once-thriving tobacco industry.
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/ 18 October 2007
The Zimbabwean government’s isolation from the international economic arena has forced it to turn right while indicating left. The country’s Deputy Minister of Industry and International Trade recently made a startling admission when he said that the European Union remains the troubled Southern African country’s key trade partner.
"It is a nasty experience, which I do not want to be reminded of. But if you try to keep it to yourself, it will remain a shock for a long time. I cannot even explain the pain I felt after being told that I was carrying dead bodies in my womb," says Sesedzai Manzanga, a Harare teacher, as she recounts giving birth to a dead set of twins two years ago.