He was speaking when he joined Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu in handing donations to Mozambique and Zimbabwe which have lost more than 800 people and had millions displaced by the effects of cyclone Idai.

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Patrice Motsepe and his wife Precious Moloi-Motsepe carried cheques for R30-million – R15-million each for Mozambique and Zimbabwe –  when they joined the humanitarian caravan to Beira and Harare yesterday. 

He says he came forward when government called for help.

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Motsepe recalls when EBOLA struck a devastating blow in  West Africa in 2013, business  provided financial aid. 

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The US President’s envoy to Harare has, meanwhile, spelled out how to end sanctions Washington slapped on Zimbabwe 16 years ago.

In New York for the United Nations General Assembly, Zimbabwe’s President  Emmerson Mnangagwa tells reporters he’s repeated his offer to his US counterpart Donald Trump of land at Victoria Falls to build a golf course.

He says he first made the offer at the Davos summit earlier this year.

Trump’s made no sign of taking it up.

However his ambassador to Harare Brian Nichols is adamant the new Zimbabwe administration is all talk and not action and US sanctions slapped on Zimbabwe for gross human rights violations and corruption  in 2002 will stay in place until there is a demonstrable change in in approach.  

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The medical personnel has taken this drastic industrial action  over job security and payment of bonuses and allowances.

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Emergency services in Zimbabwe’s public hospitals have  ground  to a halt after nurses joined doctors on strike.

Hospitals have been turning away the sick and patients have been discharged early.

Nurses  stayed away from the main hospitals in Harare and nearby Chitungwiza in what has become an  indefinite protest.

Zimbabwe authorities were forced to deploy army doctors last week.

There is a concern they’ll not be able to cope without nurses.

Zimbabwe’s medical professionals are some of the worst paid in the region and their salaries are often paid late.

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They’ll be joined tomorrow by Presidents Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe.

South Africa and Zimbabwe decided during President Robert Mugabe’s state visit to South Africa last year to elevate their structured bilateral cooperation through an annual BiNational Commission.

The two countries have signed more than 38 Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements covering a broad range of areas, including trade and investment, immigration and consular matters, defence, agriculture, the environment, energy, health, as well as arts and culture.

South Africa is one of the top investors in the Zimbabwean economy. In 2015, South African exports to Zimbabwe amounted to approximately R25.6 billion while imports amounted to approximately R4.3 billion, indicating an improvement compared to the preceding year.

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