Reform your ways and sanctions will go

WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa assumed the reins of power via a military coup in November of 2017, he was definitive in urging his supporters not to continue their lamentations about sanctions.

Mnangagwa presented himself as someone with a clear sanctions-busting plan and that he was the pragmatist Zimbabwe had been waiting for. Hence, through his good deeds, the punitive measures were soon to be a thing of the past.

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