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\"zimpoverty\"<\/a>Fresh from its landslide election victory President Robert Mugabe<\/span>‘s party said on Tuesday it would intensify the transfer of economic wealth to black Zimbabweans and overhaul the country’s “British” education system.<\/p>\n

“We are saying we have to deepen and broaden the indigenisation and empowerment programme,” Zanu-PF secretary for information Rugare Gumbo told AFP.<\/p>\n

“It must cover a wide range of people,” he said.<\/p>\n

In a full page advert carried only in the private media \u2014 some fiercely critical of the government \u2014 Zanu-PF said it was “ready” to start applying the policies listed in its election manifesto.<\/p>\n

“Over the next five years, Zimbabwe is going to witness a unique wealth transfer model that will see ordinary people take charge of their economy,” the party vowed.<\/p>\n

After a series of farm seizures, in 2007 Mugabe<\/span> passed a law which stated large foreign-owned entities may be liable to cede 51 percent of their ownership.<\/p>\n

So far only mines have been targeted.<\/p>\n

Gumbo said there also plans to change the British-modelled school curriculum.<\/p>\n

“We want to change the curriculum, it reflects the British education system, which is not benefiting our people,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We want a curriculum which is indigenous, which looks at Zimbabwean history, society and culture.”<\/p>\n

Despite its economic woes, Zimbabwe still has one of Africa’s highest literacy rates.<\/p>\n

Investors have expressed concerns about the plans of Mugabe<\/span>‘s new government.<\/p>\n

The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange’s main Industrial Index fell 1.7 percent Tuesday, following Monday’s 11 percent plunge.<\/p>\n

Local shares in Barclays fell 20 percent amid fears foreign banks could become the next target for Mugabe<\/span>‘s indigenisation efforts.<\/p>\n

Gumbo said the government would be looking east for funding for economic projects.<\/p>\n

“We will also want to go to our friends in the East because the West seem not to be co-operating.”<\/p>\n

Western powers have voiced serious concern over irregularities in last week’s election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fresh from its landslide election victory President Robert Mugabe‘s party said on Tuesday it would intensify the transfer of economic wealth to black Zimbabweans and overhaul the country’s “British” education system. “We are saying we have to deepen and broaden the indigenisation and empowerment programme,” Zanu-PF secretary for information Rugare Gumbo told AFP. “It must … Continue reading “Zim to intensify ‘wealth transfer’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4894,1670,4893,180],"class_list":["post-8750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-british-education-system","tag-poverty","tag-wealth-transfer","tag-zimbabwe"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zimpoverty.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8753,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions\/8753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}