Rural development key to growth

At independence, Zimbabwe adopted a socialist-oriented mode of governance. In fact, the country could not escape socialism given that the ruling party, just like most liberation movements in Africa, had pursued the same ideology during the war of liberation and used it to campaign for its first election victory.

The choice for socialism was influenced by several factors among which include the political and economic orientation of China and the Soviet Union which were the ideological parents of most of those who led the war.

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