Mugabe skirts sticky issues

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday appeared completely detached from the reality on the ground when he painted a rosy picture of the otherwise comatose economy, saying the government’s ZimAsset policy had yielded success stories since its launch in 2013.

Addressing thousands of people attending the 37th Independence Day commemorations at the National Sports Stadium, Mugabe skirted over issues to do with rising unemployment, cash shortages, government’s failure to timeously pay civil servants’ salaries and the general economic decay.

He said the agriculture sector was expected to grow by 12% mainly because of the good farming season.

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