The Zimbabwean government of Robert Mugabe has ordered foreign business owners in the country to relinquish 51 per cent of their businesses to the locals.
Business owners that are not ready to comply with the Indigenisation Policy, which will take effect on January 1, will be asked to leave the country.
The country's economic empowerment legislations passed in 2007 reserved for locals, retail and wholesale businesses barbers shop beauty salons bakeries, employment agencies and grain milling.
Zimbabwe's Senator, David Coltart, said that the decision was due to the rising unemployment rate in the country.
"Our Economy is in trouble with a very high unemployment rate," he said.
A foreign analyst from the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Professor Charles Dokubo, says the laws of every land must be respected irrespective of the relations enjoyed.
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