Zimbabwe focuses on correcting lopsided trade

OUTGOING SOUTH African high commissioner to Zimbabwe Kingsley Mamabolo acknowledges that trade between the two countries is lopsided and needs to be more balanced.
We are working on ways to make the trade agreement more suitable for the current conditions, he says, in reference to complaints by Zimbabwe that the quotas for most categories of clothing and textiles are the same as they were in 1964.
And in what observers in Harare see as an attempt to put a diplomatic spin on the hostile business relations, he says that negative reporting on Zimbabwe in the South African press has failed to dent what he calls warm relations.