[Big breakthrough for EDM, Second Republic] By Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare When people say that sanctions are not affecting Zimbabwe; they clearly lack the financial sophistication and reading of history to appreciate the true impact of sanctions on a nation. History tells us that the Babylonians, Greeks, Athenians, Persians and the British Empire, all used sanctions and sieges to build their empires. It is similar sanctions, blockades and sieges that started with the US Treasury imposing sanctions on Great Britain in 1812 which crippled Britain and turned the United States into a global super power. In 1939, the United States decided...