South Africa to help rebuild Zimbabwe

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DAVOS, Switzerland  - South Africa will help rebuild Zimbabwe once a unity government is formed there next month and hopes investors will return quickly, President Kaglema Motlanthe said on Thursday.


"This stage is really critical in terms of achieving political stability and the first step towards the economic recovery of that country," Motlanthe told Reuters at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in the Swiss Alpine resort.

"We could very well establish a (joint commission) so our ministries could cooperate in terms of that economic recovery plan," he said.

Regional leaders decided at a summit on Tuesday that a unity government should be formed next month, finally implementing a September power-sharing accord between Zimbabwe’s rival parties that has been stalled over the allocation of key cabinet posts.

Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown has been worsened by a cholera outbreak which has killed nearly 3,200 people and infected some 60,000 across the country — the worst death toll in Africa in 15 years from an outbreak of the normally preventable disease.

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