Speaking at a workshop meant to review the 2016/17 Command Agriculture programme, Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa said that the programme was evidence that Zimbabwe can finance its own projects.
Said Mnangagwa:
When we initially proposed this model, our biggest task and challenge was how are we going to finance it knowing attitude yaChinamasa and (Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John) Mangudya. Fortunately, when we asked the private sector to come on board the finances that were put on the table were more than what we required. Nothing came from outside Zimbabwe. So ourselves in our various subsectors and endeavours in the economy have the capacity to finance our own programmes and this is an example where we have done it ourselves.
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