It’s corruption, not imagined economic sanctions

AS the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan winds up her visit to Zimbabwe, I wonder what real incontrovertible evidence she has managed to garner on how the so-called “economic sanctions” have crippled the country.

Of course, I am not excited about her visit, as I honestly do not need someone who has been in the country for a mere 10 days to prove or otherwise what I have known and experienced for 20 years.

However, I am convinced that she could have had better luck had her mission been probing what was the actual cause of Zimbabwe’s near-economic collapse — not solely limiting her mission to these restrictive measures on few individuals and entities by Western nations.

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