Abstract
Zimbabwe’s economy was devastated partly by South African proxy aggression and partly by the government’s failure to implement effective economic policies. Since independence Zimbabwe was a constant target of South African destabilization and aggression (as indicated in previous chapters) through withdrawals of railway rolling stock, delays of imports, open and covert barriers to exports, border raids, commando attacks and sabotage through supply of weapons to some dissident groups in south-western Zimbabwe.
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Dzimba, J. (1998). Overall Economic and Social Impact of Destabilization. In: South Africa’s Destabilisation of Zimbabwe, 1980–89. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372146_6
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