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by Simplicious Chirinda Friday 14 August 2009HARARE - A Zimbabwean black empowerment pressure group on Thursday Affirmative Action Group (AAG) secretary general Tafadzwa Musarara told ZimOnline that his organisation will start lobbying the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deny work permits to foreign workers coming to take up administrative positions in the foreign-controlled firms that he said did not support local governments efforts to empower local blacks. "We are going to be lobbying the immigration department and we will oppose the issuance of permits to foreigners flaunting indeginisation laws," said Musarara. "Foreigners should train our local people and prepare them to take over and we are convinced that we have enough of our own who can now run these foreign companies in high positions." The AGG - whose members are closely linked to President Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF party - regards itself as a vanguard of black empowerment in business, education and employment. The militant pressure group two weeks ago allegedly harassed executives at a German-owned courier firm's Harare offices over shareholding of the company and demanded that the company should appoint a Zimbabwean to head its local operations. This led to the German embassy in Harare to protest to the Zimbabwean government over the incident. The southern African country's economy, which has been on a free-fall for the past decade, badly needs foreign investors. In June, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai travelled to Europe seeking to mend relations between Harare and Brussels which had deteriorated after the bloc imposed sanctions on Mugabe and his previous ZANU PF government over allegations of human rights abuses. Erstwhile enemies Mugabe and Tsvangirai formed a fragile coalition government in February to try to reverse Zimbabwe's multi-faceted crisis. -
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