Zimbabwe’s Minister for Small Enterprises Sithembiso Nyoni caused a scene yesterday when she arrived more than 90 minutes late at a function for an unveiling of an $8million cash injection for youth business projects.
The fund donated by the US, UK and Swedish governments and set to benefit 22500 young jobless Zimbabweans, saw the function’s speakers having to alter their speeches at the last minute to facilitate the late Minister.
When she finally arrives towards sunset, she neither apologised nor explained the reason for her delay despite having been pre-informed several weeks before Tuesday.
Her speech was loaded with gasps of expressions on how suspicious government is of donors and international organisations entering in to assist government.
She told delegates she had to defend her work with the International Youth Fund, “when I was defending my ministry’s partnership with IYF(International Youth Fund), I convinced the committee that we were going to work very hard and very well. I had to convince the committee to pass this partnership through and then I said if you see an international organisation signing an MOU with a government ministry it means they mean business to develop that country alongside that government and the people”. READ MORE – ZimAsset Massive Breakthrough $8Million Cash For Jobless Youths…