Zimbabwe

Government
- Ministry of Finance and Economic Development http://www.zimtreasury.gov.zw/

• http://www.zimtreasury.gov.zw/departments

- ministry of mines and mining development http://www.mines.gov.zw/
- zimbabwe investment authority http://www.investzim.com/
- Ministry of Tourism http://www.tourism.gov.zw/
- zimbabwe tourism authority
- zimbabwe revenue authority
- department of immigration www.zimimmigration.gov.zw

Bulawayo is the second-largest city in Zimbabwe. Bulawayo is nicknamed the "City of Kings" or "kontuthu ziyathunqa"—a Ndebele phrase for "smoke arising". This name arose from the city's historically large industrial base and specifically draws from the large cooling towers of the coal powered electricity generating plant situated in the city centre that once used to billow steam and smoke over the city.^[4] The majority of Bulawayo's population belongs to the Ndebele ethnic and language group (otherwise known as Northern Ndebele). For a long time, Bulawayo was regarded as the industrial centre of Zimbabwe, and it served as the hub to the country's rail network with the National Railways of Zimbabwe headquartered there because of its strategic position near Botswana, Zambia and South Africa.The city was founded by the Ndebele king, Lobhengula, the son of King Mzilikazi born of Matshobana who settled in modern-day Zimbabwe around the 1840s after the Ndebele people's great trek from Nguniland. The name Bulawayo comes from the Ndebele word KoBulawayo meaning "a place where he is being killed". It is thought that, at the time of the formation of the city, there was a civil war. A group of Ndebeles not aligned to Prince Lobengula were fighting him as they felt he was not the heir to the throne, hence he gave his capital the name "where he (the prince) is being killed". 
- https://www.ft.com/content/b16d22a2-2539-11e9-b329-c7e6ceb5ffdf Bulawayo was once Zimbabwe’s answer to Chicago: an industrial, farming and railway hub. Today its decline, tracking that of the southern African nation, is measured in dormant factories and mothballed cold-storage facilities that shipped meat to Europe in the city’s heyday. Long sidelined for being an opposition stronghold against the ruling Zanu-PF of Robert Mugabe — who was deposed in a coup 14 months ago — decades of economic despair in the country’s second-largest city exploded with unusual fury during nationwide protests in January. Frustrated citizens were called on to the streets by trade unions after Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mr Mugabe’s former henchman turned successor, announced that petrol and diesel prices would be doubled overnight. This had come in response to a crippling shortage of US dollars that had led to empty fuel stations. The protests were met with a vicious crackdown by security forces. That cleared the streets but only heightened the discontent under the surface.


伊尼扬加尼山Mount Nyangani (formerly Mount Inyangani) is the highest mountain in Zimbabwe at 2,592 m (8,504 ft). The mountain is located within Nyanga National Park in Nyanga District, is about 110 km (68 mi) north west Mutare. The film Mysteries of Mount Inyangani looks at some of the mysteries and myths about the mountain.

association
-  ZimTrade, the national trade development and promotion organisation, is the unique joint venture partnership between the Private Sector and the Government of Zimbabwe. It was established in 1991.http://www.tradezimbabwe.com
- zimbabwe stock exchange www.zse.co.zw
- confederation of zimbabwe industries
- zimbabwe national chamber of commerce
-minerals markeitng corporation of zimbabwe www.mmcz.co.zw
- zimbabwe international trade fair www.zitf.net
- african intellectual property organization http://www.aripo.org/
- religious

• The Zimbabwe Council of Churches is an ecumenical Christian organization in Zimbabwe. It was founded in 1964 and is a member of the World Council of Churches and the Fellowship of Christian Councils in Southern Africa.

Company
- http://www.zimbabwe-stock-exchange.com/
- econet wireless

•  Econet Wireless Zimbabwe is listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) and its activities are confined only to the Zimbabwe market.

- minerals marketing corporation of zimbabwe http://www.mmcz.co.zw/

• mmcz was established under the mmcz act of june 1982 and began operation in march 1983 as the exclusive agent for the selling and marketing of all minerals produced in zimbabwe, except gold and silver.  mmcz is a wholly owned government parastatal which falls under the ambit of the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development
• http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=33839524

- tour services

• South Africa Touring Services www.victoriafallssats.com

trade and investment environment
- mining

• mines and minerals act

Power sharing agreement in 2008
- http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/sep/16/zimbabwe1

SHORT TERM EMERGENCY RECOVERY PROGRAMME (STERP)
- http://www.zimtreasury.gov.zw/sterp



Rhodesia (/roʊˈdiːʒə/), commonly known from 1970 onwards as theRepublic of Rhodesia, was anunrecognised state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territorial terms to modern Zimbabwe. With its capital in Salisbury (now Harare), Rhodesia was considered a de facto successor state to the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia (which had achievedresponsible government in 1923).
- hk

• Sir Douglas Clague CBE, MC, QPM, CPM, TD was a British^{[citation needed]} soldier and entrepreneur who spent most of his life in Hong Kong. He died of cancer aged 64, in 1981.Born in Rhodesia, in 1917, Clague arrived in Hong Kong in 1940 as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, and on the outbreak of World War II became a prisoner in the Sham Shui Po PoW camp. He later escaped, and joined the British Army Aid Group in free China. On the ending of the war, he famously took the surrender of Japanese forces in Bangkok more or less single-handedly. After the war, he became the tai-pan of the hong Hutchison, later to become Hutchison Whampoa. He overstretched his finances, which resulted in HSBC taking over the firm, replacing Clague, and selling Hutchison Whampoa to Li Ka-Shing's Cheung Kong in 1979. Clague was also one of the commandants of the Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force, and a member of both the Executive and the Legislative Councils of Hong Kong, when he succeeded Cedric Blaker on 21 March 1958. In 1950-51 he was President of the Gunners Roll of Hong Kong. He owned a lodge at Kam Tsin in the northern New Territories alongside many other wealthy people.^[5] He was also a racehorse owner and one time chairman of the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club; it was under his tenure the Sha Tin Racecourse was developed. The Clague Garden Estatein Tsuen Wan is named for him, as he was also one of the longest serving chairmen of the Hong Kong Housing Society.

• mentioned in shum article hkej 12dec17

people
- Tichafa Samuel Parirenyatwa (17 July 1927 – 14 August 1962)^[1] was Zimbabwe's first trained black physician, medical doctor and the first Vice-President of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU). He rose to prominence during ZAPU's political struggle against the colonial administration in Southern Rhodesia.Parirenyatwa was born at Rusape in Manicaland and grew up in Sakubva township, Mutare. Along with many future Zimbabwean nationalists, he matriculated at South Africa's University of Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape, subsequently obtaining his degree from the University of Witwatersrand. He later underwent further medical training in Durban.^[2] Two other black Zimbabweans were shortly to follow in his footsteps, Silas Mundawarara, who was appointed Zimbabwe Rhodesia's Minister of Health in 1979 and Edward Munatsireyi Pswarayi, Deputy Minister of Health in the late 1980s. Upon returning to Southern Rhodesia, Parirenyatwa was instrumental in forming the Mashonaland Herbalists' Association – the first organisation of n'angas in Sub-Saharan Africa at the time. This group recognised traditional healers as public servants and set a general code of conduct for dealings with the Rhodesian public. After Mugabe's ascension to power in 1980, Salisbury's Andrew Fleming Medical Centre was renamed Parirenyatwa Hospital by the Zimbabwean government and opened to all races.

• son - Pagwesese David Parirenyatwa (born August 2, 1950^[1]) is a Zimbabwean politician who has served in the government of Zimbabwe as Minister of Health since 2013. Previously he served as Minister of Health from 2002 to 2009. He is a medical doctor by profession.

• 非洲國家津巴布韋衞生部長帕里雷尼亞圖瓦（David Parirenyatwa）上周指，當地愛滋病情況嚴重，有男性反映是中國製造的安全套尺碼太小，令他們不愛用安全套。其言論惹來一眾中國網民不滿，認為他辱華。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180303/00178_006.html

monetary policy
- multicurrency system (usd, gbp, south africa rand, botswana pula, euro, jpy, aud, cny and indian rupee) was introduced in 2009.  Authorised dealers (banks) can open accounts for both individuals and corporates, in any of the nine currencies in the multicurrency basket.
- reserve bank liberalised the current account which deals with international trade in goods and services in 2009, and undertook a partial liberalisation of the capital account
- export of goods excluding minerals such as gold and diamonds is administered at bank level and reserve bank accounts, monitors and administers the country's exports through a robust web based system called the computerised exchange control exports payments system (cepecs)
- all new exporters should register with authorised dealers (banks) for recognition and to have access to reserve bank of zimbabwe's cepecs


Currency
- http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/29/news/zimbabwe-currency/index.html?iid=SF_LN&sr=fbcnni030116zimbabwe-currency0830AMVODtopLink&linkId=21779921 That's a hard fact of life for many of Zimbabwe's businesses, who have been forced into the role of foreign exchange dealers after the country's dollar collapsed and was withdrawn from circulation. They'll trade in the U.S. dollar, Australian dollar, South African rand, Botswana pula, euro, British pound, Japanese yen, Chinese yuan and Indian rupee. "Most currencies are for trading purposes," Reserve Bank Governor John Mangudya told CNNMoney. "50% of our trade is with China and South Africa so we need to allow trading in many currencies." The U.S. dollar is Zimbabwe's official "reserve currency." Mangudya says the country has no intention of ditching it for the yuan, or the rand.
- ft 22oct16 Zimbabwe currency reform in doubt
- https://www.ft.com/content/8bec3da4-b567-11e6-961e-a1acd97f622d Zimbabwe has begun issuing a controversial parallel currency designed to boost exports and ease the southern African nation’s severe cash shortage, as fears grow the move will backfire and lead to a repeat of the hyperinflation that crippled its economy eight years ago.
-  https://www.ft.com/content/6c4f9294-cd5b-11e8-b276-b9069bde0956 Zimbabwe is in the grip of a new economic crisis as the value of the country’s local currency collapses and shop shelves are stripped bare after a panic-buying spree last week. Attempts to resolve the country’s complex currency system — in which non-dollar-backed electronic money and local “bond notes” are rapidly losing value — have been undermined by mixed messages from the government. The latest crisis is reviving memories of hyperinflation and undermining the new administration’s message that the country is “open for business”.
- economist 20oct18 "lost in the supermarket" a deepening currency crisis evokes memories of hyperinflation

economy
- Several people have been killed during protests in Zimbabwe after the government more than doubled the price of fuel overnight. Hundreds more were arrested as demonstrators took to the streets in the cities of Harare and Bulawayo. Burning tyres have been used to barricade roads and block bus routes. President Emmerson Mnangagwa said the fuel price rise is aimed at tackling shortages caused by an increase in fuel use and "rampant" illegal trading. Zimbabwe's government is trying to resuscitate the country's struggling economy. Inflation is running high while wages have stagnated. The southern African nation faces a severe shortage of US dollar cash and confidence in its bond notes, which are supposed to be worth the same as the dollar, is low. The bond notes, or "bollars", have lost value because of a lack of foreign currency backing the note, and are now worth much less than a dollar. Zimbabwean companies are also not producing enough to satisfy local demand or to earn foreign currency by exporting goods. Instead, the country is importing more than it is exporting and struggling to pay.

• https://beta.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/2182813/zimbabwe-imposes-total-internet-shutdown-amid-deadly-crackdown Zimbabwe imposed a “total internet shutdown” on Friday in what critics fear is an attempt to hide a violent crackdown on protests against a dramatic fuel price increase.

banking
- https://www.ft.com/content/c602bd34-1f8d-11e7-b7d3-163f5a7f229c Zimbabwe is hoping to enlist cows, goats and sheep in an attempt to revive its credit-starved economy after President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party proposed a law to make livestock eligible for backing bank loans.  Under legislation introduced in parliament this week, borrowers would be allowed to register “moveable” assets as collateral at a central bank registrar. The bill would require commercial banks to accept them as security for credit.

politics
- Zimbabwe's military has placed President Robert Mugabe under house arrest in the capital Harare, South African President Jacob Zuma says. Mr Mugabe told Mr Zuma in a phone call that he was fine, the South African leader's office said. Troops are patrolling the capital, Harare, after they seized state TV and said they were targeting "criminals". The move may be a bid to replace Mr Mugabe with his sacked deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, BBC correspondents say. Mr Mnangagwa's dismissal last week left Mr Mugabe's wife Grace as the president's likely successor.http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41997982
- racial

• 二十年前被津巴布韋前總統穆加貝趕走的白人地主，在新政府上台後陸續取回土地。其中一名白人農夫，周四（21日）返回農場時獲英雄式歡迎，數十名黑人員工及社區居民唱歌慶祝。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171223/00180_027.html

clans/ethnic groups
- The Shona (/ˈʃoʊnə/) are a Bantu ethnic group native to Zimbabwe and neighboring countries. The people are divided into five major clans and adjacent to other groups of very similar culture and languages. This name came into effect in the 19th century due to their skill of disappearing and hiding in caves when attacked. Hence Mzilikazi the great king called them amaShona meaning "those who just disappear." When the white settlers came to Mashonaland, they banned the Shona people from staying near caves and kopjes because of their hiding habits. This explanation is because there is no word called "Shona" in the Shona language vocabulary. There are various interpretations whom to subsume to the Shona proper and whom only to the Shona family.

• Shona /ˈʃoʊnə/^[6] (chiShona) is the most widely spoken Bantu language as a first language and is native to the Shona people of Zimbabwe. The term is also used to identify peoples who speak one of the Central Shona varieties: Zezuru, Karanga, Manyika and, Korekore and Budya (spoken in mutoko). Shona is a member of the large family of Bantu languages.

• amazing race season 30 episode on zimbabwe - song in shona language

History
- Rhodesia (/roʊˈdiːʒə/), commonly known from 1970 onwards as the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territorial terms to modern Zimbabwe. With its capital in Salisbury (now Harare), Rhodesia was considered a de facto successor state to the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia (which had achieved responsible government in 1923). 
- Zimbabwe Rhodesia /zɪmˈbɑːbweɪ roʊˈdiːʒə/ was an unrecognised state that existed from 1 June 1979 to 12 December 1979. Zimbabwe Rhodesia was preceded by an unrecognized republic named Rhodesia and was briefly followed by the re-established British colony of Southern Rhodesia, which according to British constitutional theory had remained the proper government after Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965. About three months later, the re-established colony of Southern Rhodesia was granted internationally recognised independence as the Republic of Zimbabwe.
- The Rhodesian Bush War—also known as the Second Chimurenga or the Zimbabwe War of Liberation—was a civil war that took place from July 1964 to December 1979^{[n 1]} in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia).^{[n 2][26]} The conflict pitted three forces against one another: the Rhodesian government, under Ian Smith (later the Zimbabwe Rhodesian government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa); the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, the military wing of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union; and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union.The war and its subsequent Internal Settlement, signed in 1978 by Smith and Muzorewa, led to the implementation of universal suffrage in June 1979 and the end of white minority rule in Rhodesia, which was renamed Zimbabwe Rhodesia under a black majority government. However, this new order failed to win international recognition and the war continued. Negotiations between the government of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, the British government and Mugabe and Nkomo's united "Patriotic Front" took place at Lancaster House, London in December 1979, and the Lancaster House Agreement was signed. The country returned temporarily to British control and new elections were held under British and Commonwealth supervision in March 1980. ZANU won the election and Mugabe became the first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe on 18 April 1980, when the country achieved internationally recognised independence.

commonwealth
- https://www.ft.com/content/62f28a38-5d0a-11e8-9334-2218e7146b04 Zimbabwe has officially applied to rejoin the Commonwealth 15 years after it quit the organisation of former British colonies. Harare’s application is the latest step aimed at reversing the country’s long isolation during the rule of Robert Mugabe.
- anti-colonialism

• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6890933/Zimbabwe-blasted-spending-thousands-dollars-wigs-1-850-each.html

Russia
- Russia and Zimbabwe plan to start construction of a joint platinum production complex from July 2016, Zimbabwean Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi said Saturday. 
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/business/20160430/1038900727/russia-zimbabwe-platinum-production-complex.html#ixzz47OXBOn44

switzerland
- https://www.ft.com/content/84d989d6-4f02-11e9-9c76-bf4a0ce37d49 Trafigura, the global commodities trader, is facing accusations that it used a partner’s connections to Zimbabwe’s ruling party to gain an unfair advantage in the supply of fuel to the southern African nation. The Swiss-based trader is alleged to have benefited from favourable terms that its partner, Sakunda, enjoys over the use of a vital state-owned pipeline that supplies most of the country’s fuel needs. Trafigura, which is a big supplier of fuel to Zimbabwe, has been criticised by politicians in both the ruling Zanu-PF of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the main opposition. Trafigura and rival trading houses operating in Africa and elsewhere are under scrutiny over how they use local intermediaries such as Sakunda to strike deals in politically fraught markets such as Zimbabwe.

South africa
- 津巴布韋總統穆加貝的夫人格蕾絲（Grace Mugabe）日前涉嫌在南非打傷一名女模特兒，令事件升級為兩國的外交糾紛。南非上周五禁止津巴布韋航空公司的客機離境，翌日津巴布韋政府疑報復，禁止南非航空公司客機起飛。orientaldaily 21aug17

China
- diplomatic history

• 津巴布韋以前叫羅得西亞，是英國殖民地，由白人掌權，1965年脫離英國獨立，與白人掌權的南非同樣歧視黑人。1970年代中期，一位黑人領袖穆加貝爭取黑人國家由黑人統治，向白人政權展開游擊戰，得不到西方支持，向莫斯科求援，亦不得要領。但穆加貝畢竟是一位梟雄，最後打進北京渠道，得中國供應軍火，卒於1980年成功推翻白人政權，改國號為津巴布韋（Zimbabwe），中國立即與津巴布韋建交，穆加貝於1980年訪問中國，盛讚中國為好朋友，彼此友誼受得起考驗。從此中國成為津巴布韋的重要貿易夥伴，大量津巴布韋棉花、礦產、煙草運往中國。把經濟推向崩潰邊緣的大罪人就是穆加貝總統，三十七年來戀棧不走，成為實質上土皇帝，人民民不聊生之際，總統夫人Grace卻出外旅遊花霍、置業（包括在香港置豪宅），花的錢從何來，不問而知。但在這樣的情形下，2016年中國還是在津巴投資了4億5千萬美元，應允為新國會大廈融資，並承擔其他基建項目。11月5日，津巴陸軍總司令Chiwenga到中國訪問，與國防部長常萬全會談，內容不得而知。11月14日黃昏，津巴防衞軍在首都Harare會師，控制電視台，軟禁穆加貝，剛於一個星期前被革職放逐外國的副總統Mnangagwa立即回國，於11月19日替代穆加貝為執政黨ZANU-PF的黨魁，一切跡象都顯示，津巴軍隊發動了一場不流血政變，但基於不可知的原因，沒立即把穆加貝幹掉。外國觀察家認為津巴軍隊發動「清君側」，有中國的手影，陸軍總司令在得到中國的默許後才回國決定清理穆加貝，但中方要求不流血，不殺人，於是才留下一條尾巴，大搞民主程序，由國會推動彈劾總統等等。以上種種中國當然一概否認，指有人發佈謠言，別有用心。津巴布韋的不流血政變確實撲朔迷離，吳京又有題材攝製「戰狼3」了。 https://hk.lifestyle.appledaily.com/lifestyle/columnist/%E5%B7%A6%E4%B8%81%E5%B1%B1/daily/article/20171127/20226375

- leaders' visit

• http://www.chinadailyasia.com/nation/2017-01/10/content_15554568.html China vowed on Monday to deepen infrastructure and agricultural cooperation with Zimbabwe, the first foreign country to adopt the Chinese yuan as its primary international currency. President Xi Jinping and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe reached the agreement when they met at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. "China will never forget old friends," Xi said, adding that Beijing cherishes the friendly ties with Harare that have stood the test of time. Aside from cooperation on infrastructure and agriculture, he said China will also encourage enterprises to invest in the African country. In November, Mugabe opened the upgraded Victoria Falls International Airport. Expansion of the airport was done by China Jiangsu International and financed through a $150 million loan from China Export Import Bank.
• Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday told President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe that they should work towards a new chapter in ties, during the African leader’s first state visit to China since he seized power last year.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-zimbabwe/chinas-xi-tells-zimbabwe-president-they-should-write-new-chapter-in-ties-idUSKCN1HA1LF

- officail visit

• China's Assistant Foreign Minister Chen Xiaodong will pay a visit to Zimbabwe from Nov. 29 to 30 as a special envoy of the Chinese government, at the invitation of the government of Zimbabwe, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry.http://www.china.org.cn/world/2017-11/29/content_50075950.htm

- rmb

• http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5c2be7e4-a8b7-11e5-9700-2b669a5aeb83.html Zimbabwe will encourage the use of China’s currency to pay for anything from groceries to tourist curios as president Robert Mugabe’s government turns ever more closely to Beijing to bolster its ailing economy. After announcing that China had agreed to cancel $40m of debt due this year, Patrick Chinamasa, Zimbabwe’s finance minister, said he hoped that boosting the use of the renminbi would bolster bilateral trade between the countries.

- sez

• http://africa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2014-09/05/content_18550404.htm China will help Zimbabwe build special economic zones and industrial parks to jump-start exports and a struggling economy, its ambassador to Harare said on Thursday as a Chinese firm started expanding the country's largest hydro-power plant. The pledge by Beijing's top envoy to Zimbabwe, Lin Lin, comes days after 90-year-old President Robert Mugabe returned from a trip to China during which he sought financial help and investment from the world's number two economy. Lin told Mugabe during a ceremony to mark the start of work to expand Kariba hydropower station, 400 km (250 miles) northwest of Harare, that Beijing was ready to deepen bilateral relations. Investors in the zones will benefit from special tax breaks and officials said they would not have to comply with black economic empowerment laws that force foreign companies to sell majority shares to black Zimbabweans.
• Chinese firms plan SEZ in Zimbabwe http://www.pressreader.com/hong-kong/china-daily-hong-kong/20150711/281917361752594/TextView

- electricity

• 中國電建集團3日發布消息稱，該公 司已與津巴布韋簽署11.74億美元的旺 吉電站擴機項目協議，這是津巴布韋 30年來最大的基礎設施建設項目。 這一協議是在中國國家主席習近 平對津巴布韋進行國事訪問期間簽署 的。旺吉電站建於上世紀80年代，總 裝機容量92萬千瓦，但因年久失修、 設備老化，實際出力不到50萬千瓦。 本期擴建項目完成後，旺吉電站裝機 總容量將擴大至152萬千瓦，有望使津 巴布韋國內電力供應提升70%。此外 ，中國電建所屬中國水電承包的卡里 巴湖南岸水電站擴機項目也在2014年9 月動工。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20151204/PDF/a4_screen.pdf
• 中企在津巴布韦的最大水电项目─卡里巴南岸水电站扩机工程目前已完成85%，首台机组将于今年底建成并投入试运营。第2台机组也将于明年一季度完工。届时，两台机组将併网发电，大大缓解津电力短缺局面。据该工程项目经理杨社亚介绍，该项目于2013年开工，使水电站总装机容量由75万千瓦提升至105万千瓦，是津巴布韦独立以来开工建设的规模第二大的能源项目，完工后将使津全国年发电量提高近25%，大大缓解基本用电缺口。该项目由中国水电建设集团国际工程有限公司负责建设，造价3.55亿美元，当中3.19亿美元源自中国进出口银行优惠信贷。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170606/PDF/a17_screen.pdf

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• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-07/11/content_26034567.htm Zimbabwean farmers and students are benefiting from the China-Aid Agricultural TechnologyDemonstration Center, 27 km north-west of Harare, where they are getting knowledge on how toimprove their yields. CATDC is nestled on a 109-hectare piece of land to the south of Gwebi College and composedof an agricultural production and training base where it merges research, production, educationwork and a community living together.  Employing 70 people, its functions include experimental studies, technical training and promotionof sustainable development.  The center carries out research and studies on maize, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, vegetablesand other crops and seeks to attract Chinese agricultural enterprises to invest in Zimbabwe. Since 2011, more than 10 experts on agricultural machinery, farming, horticulture and agriculturaleconomy have cooperated with local agriculture extension services and Gwebi College toimprove production.

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• Zimbabwe recently held an investment forum for a visiting business delegation from China's Anhui province that is seeking trade and investment opportunities in the country. Raj Modi, Zimbabwean deputy minister of industry and commerce, urged the Chinese firms to take advantage of Zimbabwe's improving business environment to invest in various sectors of the country's economy. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2018-11/26/content_37312026.htm

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• victor machamba, consul (economic) 

- hugh norman-walker link

• 早在津巴布韋成為黑人政權前，她的前身、以少數白人作管治階層的羅德西亞，就與英屬香港有不少貿易關係。羅德西亞1965年單方面宣布獨立前，津巴布韋被稱為南羅德西亞（Southern Rhodesia），屬英國殖民地，與香港更有精英階層的互動，例如香港無綫電視創辦人之一、也是和記黃埔前身和記的創辦人祈德尊爵士（Sir Douglas Clague），就是出生於南羅德西亞，因二戰來港，參與「香港保衞戰」，從此在港定居；曾任香港輔政司的羅樂民爵士（Sir Hugh Norman-Walker）調職到港前，亦曾於五十年代在羅德西亞及尼亞薩蘭聯邦（Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland，包括今天的津巴布韋、贊比亞及馬拉維）內閣工作，為英國殖民政府服務。大家看到今天的津巴布韋，未必能想像當年的羅德西亞，是富裕的農產大國，盛產棉花、玉米等經濟作物，甚至有「非洲糧倉」之稱。在七十年代，香港工業仍然盛行時，不少香港布廠、紗廠商人都與實行種族隔離政策的羅德西亞有生意往來，並視羅得西亞為非洲最「穩定」的貿易夥伴之一。hkej 12dec17 shum article

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•  综合美联社及英国《每日电讯报》报道：津巴布韦总统穆加贝与妻子格蕾丝的女儿博娜（Bona）曾于香港城市大学就读，已于2011年毕业取得会计荣誉学士学位。有英国传媒指出，为了让博娜在港就读期间入住，穆加贝通过中间人在大埔龙成堡以约4000万港元购入豪宅。惟该大宅3年前捲入业权纠纷，揭露津国业主身份。2009年英国《星期日泰晤士报》揭发，穆加贝夫妇透过南非华裔商人谢炳松（Hsieh Ping-Sung）名下的川浩有限公司，在大埔龙成堡以约4000万港元，购入一间佔地逾4700平方呎连私家泳池独立屋。博娜在港就读期间入住该豪宅，保安森严。穆加贝曾多次指出，购入大埔龙成堡独立屋一事，属“政府秘密项目”，他们并非挪用公款，只是“借用”。川浩有限公司于2008年6月购入该物 业，2010年该大宅转为由谢炳松个人名义持有。津巴布韦政府于2014年1月入禀香港高院，控告川浩有限公司及持南非护照的谢炳松，要求法庭颁令宣布津 国政府是该间独立屋的真正屋主，并要求对方将该独立屋的业权归还。案件已排期于明年3月审讯。另外，穆加贝及夫人格蕾丝2009年来港购物，在九龙香格里拉酒店离开时，遇到《星期日泰晤士报》记者採访，格蕾丝的保镳上前阻止，又企图抢走相机，格蕾丝更亲自出手，向记者挥打最少10拳，并用手上的钻戒割伤对方。但格蕾丝享有外交豁免权免被起诉。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20171116/PDF/a10_screen.pdf
•  http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/2120281/robert-mugabes-claim-over-hong-kong-villa-still-limbo While the crisis in Zimbabwe continues with President Robert Mugabe under house arrest, the ousted leader’s claim over a luxury villa in Hong Kong remains unresolved, three years after he launched a legal battle to take ownership.The lawsuit to take back the property in Tai Po back from a Taiwanese-born South African businessman could still be pursued by a new Zimbabwean government without affecting the case, legal experts said on Thursday, although Mugabe himself would not benefit.

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