{"id":146521,"date":"2015-08-26T10:26:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T10:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=146521"},"modified":"2015-08-26T10:27:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T10:27:44","slug":"robert-mugabe-booed-in-zimbabwes-parliament-over-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/08\/robert-mugabe-booed-in-zimbabwes-parliament-over-economic-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Mugabe booed in Zimbabwe’s parliament over economic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
Others shouted \u201cif wishes were horses\u201d and \u201cyou have utterly failed\u201d.<\/p>\n
The economy of the southern African nation has been on a downward spiral for more than a decade with slow growth, low liquidity and high unemployment.Many companies have closed, downsized or relocated to neighbouring countries.
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The government has cut its growth forecasts for 2015 to 1.5% from 3.2%, mainly due to slow growth in the agricultural sector.Zimbabwe\u2019s harvest of the staple corn has shrunk by half due to erratic rains and abnormally high temperatures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Zimbabwe\u2019s veteran president Robert Mugabe was booed and heckled by opposition politicians over the deteriorating economy as he gave his state of the nation address to parliament on Tuesday. Movement for Democratic Change parliamentarians questioned his economic policies, jeering as the 91-year-old delivered a policy speech which lasted less than half an hour. He spoke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[38,14],"yoast_head":"\n