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Article: The giant across the river. (economic relations between Zimbabwe and South Africa) (Special Report: Zimbabwe)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- July 1, 1994
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THE new Zimbabwe High Commission in Pretoria is Merton House, a four-storey Mediterranean-style mansion whose purchase price of R7.5m set a record for residential property sales in South Africa. The luxurious chancery-to-be clearly illustrates Zimbabwe's approach to its former enemy and newest diplomatic relation.
After a decade of hostility and three years of political ambivalence, Zimbabwe and South Africa established diplomatic ties on April 29, the third day of voting in South Africa's first democratic election. Although Zimbabwe had unofficially allied itself with the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) during the years of Apartheid rule, the road was open for what ...