‘Zimbabwe Will Survive Sanctions’

Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Frederick Shava

Zvamaida Murwira

Senior Reporter

Zimbabwe will continue to be innovative and come up with ways to survive despite the yoke of illegal sanctions that have been imposed by Western countries, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Frederick Shava has said. Minister Shava said this yesterday while fielding questions from the media during a post-Cabinet briefing held in Harare. He said President Mnangagwa called for the removal of sanctions at the just ended 78th United Nations General Assembly that was held in new York last week. “I do not think we can do more than encourage those that imposed sanctions to say the land reform programme is here to stay. Yes you will meet those that support us, there are a lot of countries at the UN who have been supporting and calling for the removal of the sanctions. We are doing the best we can,” said Minister Shava. “In the meantime therefore we must continue to survive as a country, we must continue to think out of the box, to say if these sanctions work for a long time how can Zimbabwe survive. ReadMore