Vision 2030: A pipedream

FOR a country hoping to achieve upper-middle income status in the next seven years, revelations that men in Zimbabwe are abandoning their families due to poverty makes the journey to attain this goal a hard slog.

According to a story in our NewsDay edition yesterday, many Zimbabwean men are being forced to abandon their families due to biting poverty which has resulted in some donors chipping in with money to assist the abandoned women and children to make ends meet.

Nothing can be more indicting than this for a country hoping to achieve wonders of becoming an upper-middle income economy by 2030.

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