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Cato Scholar Comments on Zimbabwe's Indigenization and Economic Empowerment Act

Monday, March 10, 2008

Marian L. Tupy, policy analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity:

The Indigenization and Economic Empowerment Act, which requires all businesses in Zimbabwe to sell majority stakes to black owners is yet another step on Zimbabwe's road to economic suicide. The Act will expropriate non-black owners, while providing the ZANU-PF elite with a new source of income. The biggest victims of the Orwellian measure signed into law by Robert Mugabe over the weekend will be the black majority. In the absence of the rule of law and protection of property rights, many people will loose jobs as the economy contracts further.

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