The Zanu PF side of government, which has been using the MDC’s as a window dresser for it’s electoral and political legitmacy over the past four years, is also desperately mortgaging the country’s mineral wealth to Beijing in return for opaque economic loans, which the administration is finding difficult to repay thus piling up the responsibility on future generations.

Zimbabwe is targeting to make use of domestic nuclear energy by 2020, thereby necessitating the overtures with China, in which President Robert Mugabe and a coterie of his military strongmen are said to be interested parties, sources from the energy and power development ministry have said.

It is also coming to light for the first time that, Mugabe had initially sought nuclear technology, to boost the country’s electricity needs from Iran and North Korea in the 1990s, but his efforts did not bear fruit thus he turned to Argentina where he decided to acquire a nuclear reactor, and again his plans suffered a stillbirth.

Both Iran and North Korea have controversial nuclear programmes, which have set them on a collision course with the West due to the veil of secrecy shrouding them and fears by many intelligence organisations that the two rogue states are not pursuing peaceful nuclear programmes.

President Barack Obama, has warned the former is just over a year from possessing a nuclear bomb, while the latter has threatened Washington with a first nuclear strike option after being hit with a new regime of sanctions by the United Nations Security Council for her nuclear tests activities along the Korean Peninsula.

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