People of the South

Zimbabwe is turning to South Africa and Angola for help in plugging a $400-million hole in its budget, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said yesterday.

The country’s economy is recovering under a coalition government formed in 2009 by President Robert Mugabe and his rival, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, but is still suffering the hangover of a decade-long recession widely blamed on Mugabe policies such as the seizure of white-owned farms.

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