road Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/road/ The low down on African affairs Fri, 19 Jun 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 road Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/road/ 32 32 Mugabe accused SA of protectionism https://jjcornish.com/2015/06/mugabe-accused-sa-of-protectionism/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/06/mugabe-accused-sa-of-protectionism/ South Africa’s blocking free trade with the region, says Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe at the end of an inspection tour of the SADC secretariat in Gaborone. The 92-year-old president who currently hold the chairs of both the regional organisation and the African Union says South Africa insures that trade moves in only one direction. Robert […]

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]]> South Africa’s blocking free trade with the region, says Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe at the end of an inspection tour of the SADC secretariat in Gaborone.
The 92-year-old president who currently hold the chairs of both the regional organisation and the African Union says South Africa insures that trade moves in only one direction.
Robert Mugabe tells reporters that someone ordering a drink in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania or Malawi will invariably be served a South African beverage.
This may be because of the giant SAB Miller company serving these countries.
But it is the way South Africa operates.
He cites example of drugs from SADC countries only being accepted if the are flown into South Africa. The manufacturers are prevented from using cheaper rail or road transport by South Africa’s protectionist practices, he says.

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