From retreat to turnaround

Foreign investors but not their governments are beginning to take Harare's new order more seriously

Warm words emerged from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's ministerial retreat in Victoria Falls on 3-6 April and are encouraging foreign business to look at profitable turnarounds. Yet Western governments remain sceptical. The idea of the retreat was to bring the former sworn opponents together in Zimbabwe's most expensive and picturesque hotel to consider proposals from the new Finance Minister, Tendai Biti. Flanked by President Robert Mugabe and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara, his former rivals who are now colleagues in government, Tsvangirai called for unity of purpose and reaffirmed the 'global political agreement' of last September.

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Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, Robert Mugabe, Arthur Mutambara, Susan Tsvangirai, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Elton Mangoma, Canada, Sanctions and the USA, United States, South African, Trevor Manuel, Donald Kaberuka, Patrick Chinamasa, Gideon Gono, Trevor Ncube, Jerry Vilakazi, Theresa Makone, Financial Gazette, Daily Evening Gazette, Newsday

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