Wednesday 13 January 2016

Apologist condemn Teachers' strike because gvt "over burdened by wage bill" - it is overwhelmed by corruption. By P Guramatunhu!

One of the prices Zimbabweans have paid for having no free media and no freedom of expression is that the nation has been bombarded by Zanu PF apologists and propagandist in the country’s party controlled Public media, it is little wonder we are brainwashed nation. The apologists and propagandists have started spilling over into the little private media with their bombastic nonsense, with the same intention of brainwashing the readers.
 
“The move by the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) to urge its members to engage in a go-slow beginning this week as a way of pushing government to improve their working conditions through, amongst other things reducing last month pension deductions from $40 to $10 per month as well as salary increments is ill-advised and detrimental to an already over-burdened wage bill,” wrote one such Mugabe apologist, Chido Chikuni in Bulawayo 24.
 
It is true that government is “already over-burdened by wage bill” but what you are failing to understand is that most of the civil servants’ wages are already below the breadline. In a country where 90% plus are unemployed, these civil servants are the only bread winner of their family and extended family. There is no doubt that to most of these civil servants are too over-burdened already and the $30 less in their pay means a lot.
 
It should be noted that the government is in the pickle because of 36 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. President Mugabe alone, not to mention the rest of his cronies involved, is getting $ 2 billion a year from the Marange and Chiadzwa diamonds bonanza. If the money was added to Finance Minister’s $3.8 billion annual budget government can afford to increase’s expenditure by a whopping 53% across the board. No civil servant will be paid starving wages!
 
So which of the two, a corrupt and wasteful government and the starving civil servant crying out for help, which deserves a rational human being’s sympathy and support?
 
Before you answer that, remember that we are dealing here with a regime whose appetite for wealth is insatiable we have reached the point now where Mugabe is commandeering 53% of the nation’s resources for his own exclusive use and he is still not satisfied. Right now he is on his annual one-month long holiday in the Far East at a cost of $ 3 million plus. Guess what? He will expect the nation to pay the bill from the $3.8 billion whilst his $ 2 billion remains untouched!
 
His looted wealth is to be used to fund his lavish lifestyle and multi-billion dollar vote rigging devilish schemes.
 
It is dumb to ask someone to sacrifice their very lives for a cause for which they stand to gain nothing but only a moron would ask for such sacrifice knowing in making the sacrifice they are empowering a tyrant who is after whatever little they still have left!
 
Zimbabwe has had the great misfortune of not just having a corrupt and murderous tyrant as head of state; the situation was made worse by having corrupt and incompetent ministers, MPs and other leaders all grovelling to the tyrant ready and willing to do his bidding day and night; and, worst still, have a whole army of apologists and propagandists like Chido Chikuni always twisting the facts and truth to brainwashing the people into seeing Mugabe as good and not the corrupt and murderous tyrant he is.

6 comments:

  1. Those who fail to plan, plan to fail and for Zimbabwe the chickens are coming home to roost. We are importing more and more goods and services already and importing power will only make our balance of trade worse. We will have to pay for all those imports!

    When you are in a hole stop digging! We are in a hole we should be thinking of how to get out and not dig ourselves even deeper into the hole.

    For the last two and half years the economic meltdown has got worse and worse. We must accept this is not working and change! We can accept orderly change now or risk chaotic change tomorrow. The choice is on what kind of change we want but not on change itself, it is coming whether we like it or not!

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  2. I cannot get my head round the $ 2 billion per year Mugabe is getting from Marange. When Tendai Biti was Minister of Finance he complained of not getting all the tax revenue he expected from Marange. When Chinamasa became minister of finance the tax revenue from Marange dried up completely. What I fail to get my head round is how the nation accepted this nonsense and soon forgot that Marange and Chiadzwa were ever part of Zimbabwe! Our capacity to tolerate even the most outrageous knows no limit!

    If someone can loot 53% of the nation's wealth and we are not up set then what then what will?

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  3. The failure by all Zimbabweans but especially the apologists to realize the political system is not working and not just for civil servants but for us all has been the greatest failure of this nation. We love shooting ourselves in the foot!

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  4. @ Themba W

    Fear is a factor that is true but there is also a lack of drive amongst Zimbabweans to understand what is going on and then doing something to put it right. Take for example the looting in Marange, the looting has continued at this monumental scale because the regime was confident the people will do nothing about it.



    Corruption has been a major, major problem is Zimbabwe and yet again and again, story after story of corruption, the people have never voiced their disapproval. They have suffered in ignorance and silence. The regime has taken full advantage of this, naturally, with President Mugabe and other even add a spin and praising the suffering masses for their "resilience"!



    Good government come from the people no where is this more true and relevant than when you have bad leaders. If the people do nothing to remove them who will?



    Even on the odd occasion people have got their act together to fight for change, nothing much changed on the ground because they did not know what exactly they needed done to accomplish the change. Look what happened during the GNU, no reforms were implemented and so all the sacrifices people had made to get MDC elected came to naught!

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    1. Exactly!

      if the people took the trouble to consider the miserable state they are in after 36 years of allowing Mugabe to fleece them bone-dry then common sense will tell them that whatever it is they fear Mugabe would do to them if the protested is nothing compared to the economic misery, hopelessness and despair they are facing already because they did not protest.

      We are starving in the Garden of Eden. Millions are out of work and they are so poor and hundred they are dying. Where poverty and hungry dwell there too disease and death will find home. Mugabe is just mocking the people, praising them for their resilience. When people are dying like flies, where is the resilience in that!

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  5. @ Themba W

    By seeking scapegoat in sanctions or drought Mugabe has done the nation a great disservice because he has allowed the real problems behind the country's economic problems the time and space to grow and spread. Today corruption and mismanagement, two of the root causes behind our economic problems, have grown and spread they are like cancerous tumour the size of tennis balls and they are in every organ of the body. The cancers are killing the nation's economy.

    The EU has lifted all its sanctions except those against Mugabe and his wife and that has had no effect because the sanctions were not the problem. You can give someone with a broken leg all the cough medicine just because you do not want to admit you broke their leg that is not going to cure the leg.

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