President of South Africa's Visit to Zimbabwe: What Mnangagwa Said

The new president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa visited Zimbabwe yesterday and met with the new president of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa. After they had closed meetings, the two spoke to the press.

Emmerson Mnangagwa had to say about the visit:

His Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, has come to Zimbabwe to exchange notes about the situation in South Africa and in Zimbabwe.

On my part, I was pleased that we had a one-on-one and we were able to look at challenges which we face as the new leaders of our respective countries, share these challenges and how we can overcome them.

For instance, with regards to Zimbabwe we have infrastructure challenges, we have poor roads, poor railway; the economy is down. We also need electricity, energy, from South Africa. All these issues are issues we discussed and I am happy to say my brother was very accommodative.

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As a nation, (ruling) party and Government, we are looking forward to very peaceful, transparent and harmonised elections in July this year. I have already invited all political parties in Zimbabwe to a roundtable where we all commit ourselves to non-violence but unfortunately we were supposed to meet two days ago but when I asked them to come.

Ramaphosa’s visit comes after former president Robert Mugabe spoke for the first time, since he left office in November 2017 following the military intervention. Mugabe categorically referred to Mnangagwa’s takeover as unconstitutional and a coup de’tat.

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