Region counts cost of SA riots

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ZIMBABWE and the rest of Southern Africa are on the edge, amid fears of protracted instability and violent riots in South Africa, which this week disrupted access to the key regional trade port of Durban.
Experts who spoke to The Financial Gazette yesterday said the startling mayhem which is being witnessed in South Africa, the sub-region’s economic powerhouse and Zimbabwe’s biggest trading partner, was ominous for all neighbouring countries because when “Pretoria sneezes, Harare and Sadc invariably catch a cold”.