Botswana, Zimbabwe Leaders ‘Agree’ Passport-Free Travel: Mnangagwa
GABORONE, Botswana – Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday said he had “agreed” with his Botswana counterpart President Mokgweetsi Masisi to open up their borders for passport-free travel by their citizens.
Mnangagwa said the terms of the agreement will be be hammered out by officials from both countries.
“I have been talking to my brother here (Masisi) after he was making a statement here and we have agreed, I can announce, that from now on we shall instruct our officials that there shall be no question of how to enter Zimbabwe, how to enter Botswana,” Mnangagwa said to cheers during the fifth edition of the annual Kusi Ideas Festival in Gaborone.
He went on: “That should be cleared. The two of us have agreed, realising that we are Africans. We should be able to walk into Botswana, walk into Zambia and walk into Kenya. We agreed when we were sitting there that why should we restrict ourselves?
Source: Zim Live