Pan-African News Political News Africans in Government Zimbabwe, South Africa to sign deals to ease economic crisis
| Zimbabwe, South Africa to sign deals to ease economic crisis | ||
| Africans in Government | |
| Monday, 16 March 2009 08:20 | |
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Harare, Zimbabwe - Senior Zimbabwean and South African officials are set to sign bilateral agreements on Monday as regional efforts continue to assist Zimbabwe emerge from a nine-year economic and humanitarian crisis.
A South African government delegation headed by Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dhlamini-Zuma was expected to meet with senior Zimbabwean officials in the resort town of Victoria Falls on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia. Dlamini-Zuma and her Zimbabwe counterpart Simbarashe Mumbengegwi will chair the scheduled meeting of the Zimbabwe-South Africa joint permanent commission for co-operation. Sources said the meeting was part of ongoing efforts by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to help Zimbabwe rebuild its economy and end a humanitarian crisis that has seen more than three million Zimbabweans leaving the country for neighbouring countries since 2000. South Africa is the current chair of the 15-member SADC bloc which brokered a peace deal between Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and former opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai last year. Source: APA |
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