Africa: Industrialization Trapped In Limbo Despite All Efforts – OpEd

By Jeffrey Moyo

Jobless and weighed down by idleness, 53-year-old Jasper Mhandu, in the Zimbabwean capital, now has to spend time sited at a street corner chatting with gangs of drug-taking jobless youths in Highfield, a poor income suburb here.

Mhandu used to work for a clothing factory that shut its operations in 2007...