EDITORIAL COMMENT: Pay heed to voices off the bandwagon 

Source: EDITORIAL COMMENT: Pay heed to voices off the bandwagon | The Financial Gazette March 8, 2018

By Staff Reporter

LAST week, the world’s biggest platinum miner gave a brutally frank assessment of Zimbabwe’s investment climate.

Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) chief executive officer, Chris Griffith struck a different chord from the dominant tune that Zimbabwe’s government has been happy to hear since President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeded Robert Mugabe — many an investor’s bete noir — last November.

Griffith told Reuters: “I said (to Chitando): ‘You think I will bring half a billion dollars to Zimbabwe when you guys keep chopping and changing the rules? There is no way I will do that.’”