GOVERNMENT will not tolerate acts of economic sabotage as it continues with initiatives to grow the economy as enunciated in Vision 2030 and the Transitional Stabilisation Programme, Emmerson Mnangagwa said yesterday.

Delivering his second State of the Nation Address since winning last year’s elections during the official opening of the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament in Harare, Mnangagwa said the fight against corruption would be deepened until the vice was gotten rid of in society.

“My Government continues to take bold and decisive steps to open up and grow the economy for the benefit of all our people,” he said.

“The road map articulated in our Vision 2030, with the TSP as the key building block, is being systematically pursued. We are reforming our economy, we are reforming political space, and the very fabric of our society.

“I am encouraged by the nation’s positive response to the currency reforms which we have embarked on. Government is equally pleased with the relative stability of the exchange rate over the past eight weeks.”

However, the President said, last week’s events of exchange rate manipulation amount to economic sabotage and would not be tolerated.
“We all need to adhere to the rule of law and foster discipline at all levels.

We are determined to consolidate digital financial services which are contributing to the creation of financial inclusion by way of delivering banking services to previously unbanked and vulnerable groups of our population,” said Mnangagwa. – State media