Kanyenze implored policymakers to study the years after the 1990 ESAP

Godfrey Kanyenze, director at the Labour and Economic Development Research Institute of Zimbabwe (LEDRIZ), has sharply criticised finance minister Mthuli Ncube for advising the government to embrace austerity measures to cure the country’s economic difficulties, describing fiscal tightening policies in the country as “heartless” and misplaced. Speaking at the two-day Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions