Strong currency that matched the pound. Strong financial services with banks and loans. Well developed public services, good hospitals, good education (the most literate country in Africa) they had tourism and industry. Good trade. Good military and police force.
Julius Nyerere, the leader of Tanzania, prophetically cautioned Mugabe, saying: “You have inherited a jewel in Africa. Don’t tarnish it.”
Has a country ever had more to start with and ended up so badly?
What did Zimbabwe start with? They were looted by white colonizers that even the British weren’t fully comfortable accepting.
They started as the breadbasket of Africa.
Strong currency that matched the pound. Strong financial services with banks and loans. Well developed public services, good hospitals, good education (the most literate country in Africa) they had tourism and industry. Good trade. Good military and police force.
Julius Nyerere, the leader of Tanzania, prophetically cautioned Mugabe, saying: “You have inherited a jewel in Africa. Don’t tarnish it.”