Zanu PF on Tuesday bused hundreds of hungry school going children and forced them to go to the Harare International Airport for the visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping who arrived in Harare Tuesday morning.
The Chinese leader who has a pre-scheduled trip to South Africa where he will chair the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) from December 2 had been begged by President Robert Mugabe to pass through Harare on his way to Johannesburg and is expected to seal the so-called mega deals he discussed in Beijing last August with the aging Zimbabwe leader.
Scores of school children from as far as Chitungwiza’s St Marys’ high school and Harare’s Girls high were bussed to the Harare international Airport to welcome the Chinese leader.
Some were also paraded at the Rain Bow Hotel where Jinping went for lunch.
At the weekend more than 50 international delegates attending ICASA were displaced by the Chinese President’s advance team.