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Zimbabwe’s opposition party the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said on Monday that any hope of an immediate resumption of aid to Zimbabwe by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was far-fetched because President Robert Mugabe’s government remained defiantly opposed to conditionalities, news reports said.
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai said his party’s economic experts presented the visiting IMF team with the party’s proposals to create an economic turn-around in Zimbabwe. “There are three issues to look at - one is the return to the rule of law, a permanent resolution of the land question and the fundamentals on the economy,” Tsvangirai said.
Tsvangirai added that a solution to these issues was dependent on how Mugabe handled the political situation. “It is critical for the government to accept responsibility for lawlessness and start dealing with that issue before we even start talking about anything,” Tsvangirai said. “The problem is not economic. While symptoms are economic, the real problem is the political crisis.”
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