In an interview on the sidelines of the handover of an automated weather station at the Mutare Fire Brigade today, Delahousse praised Mugabe for making Zimbabwe a safe destination.
For more than 10 years, Zimbabwe has been considered a pariah State due to violence, human rights abuses and poor governance.
“We want to come back to Zimbabwe. We are happy that President Robert Mugabe has tried to initiate a safe and sustainable environment for the investors. That is precisely what the government of Zimbabwe is doing at the moment,” he said.
He said French companies were willing to invest in Zimbabwe.
“We are happy with these signals since the last election, since the inception of the government. We want to help. We want to invest for the duration, for the future,” said Delahousse, adding that his country would fully engage with the Mugabe government by year end.
“The government of Zimbabwe and the government of France are doing something. We are re-uniting our forces and we have been supportive since independence,” Delahousse said.
Mugabe has of late encouraged the international community to direct funding to government instead of non-State agencies as has been the case.
Zimbabwe has been failing for years to access direct funds from the EU and the West owing to strained relations.
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The French government awarded Morgan Tsvangirai some dubious leadership award only for him to show in the 2013 election just what an incompetent and complete idiot he was by taking part in the elections without even one reform implemented. Now the French are at it again.
The Mugabe regime has refused to scrap its indigenisation law which force all foreign investors to have a local partner whether they wanted a local partner or not. The local partner, a Zanu PF crony, would be nothing but a blood parasite the size of a monkey! So how does that equate to a “safe and sustainable environment for investors� The French are once again out on a limb!
Any French investors who invest in Zimbabwe under these conditions will only be doing so be-cause they will stand to make so much money the negative effect of the monkey ticks will negligible. The French should know that such deals will be looked at closely; Zimbabweans are sick and tired of nations who are propping up this tyrannical regime for selfish economic gain at the expense to the long suffering masses.