The pressure of the worsening economic meltdown
is a reality and Mugabe and his Zanu PF regime are now finding it increasing
difficult pretend they are not feeling the pressure. They are feeling it now
more than ever.
For the last two and half years, since the
rigged July 2013 elections, the regime has done its best to convince everyone
that its $27 billion ZimAsset recovery plan will revive the economy. The regime
had no money to pay for the plan and was hoping to get donors to fund the plan.
Not ever Mugabe’s “all-weather friend”, the Chinese, would bankroll the
hare-brain plan. By the end 2015 with nothing in the ZimAsset begging bowl
other than post-dated cheques from the Chinese and Russians, there was no
hiding it ZimAsset is well and truly dead!
The Zimbabwe economy is in serious trouble
already with unemployment a nauseating 90% plus, government’s revenue base has
been depleted so much it failing to pay civil servant wages let alone pay for
all the other things, etc. Worse still with ZimAsset dead and no other plan in
place to revive the economy there is therefore only one way for the economy to
go, to slid deeper and deeper into the abyss. The economic situation is intolerable
already the prospect of it sinking even deeper is simply unthinkable; the
situation is socially and politically unsustainable.
The logical response for Mugabe and his Zanu PF
regime to the increasing pressure from the worsening economic situation is to
accept the regime has failed, implement the democratic reforms and hold free,
fair and credible elections. Only a democratically elected government will have
the mandate and political will to implement the tough economic policies to
revive the economy. And such a government will also have the trust and respect
of donors and investors; the country needs their help to kick start the
economy.
Instead of doing the logical and right thing
Zanu PF, in its typical tyrannical tradition, is responding to the pressure of
the worsening economic meltdown by going into overdrive with its brutal oppression.
The arrests of the Newsday journalists is typical Zanu PF tactic of finding a
scapegoat, what better scapegoat than the bearer of the unpalatable truths, and
descend on him like a tonne of bricks.
"We should be careful when reporting on
national security" said Information Minister Mushowe.
"I believe in freedom of the press. I do not believe in freedom to destroy our country and our national interest."
"I believe in freedom of the press. I do not believe in freedom to destroy our country and our national interest."
Nonsense, how does reporting that the CIOs were
paid their Christmas bonus threaten national security?
"Government has made it clear that it would like to arrest journalists as weapon of choice to silence them," AMH Managing Director Vincent Kahiya told the self-righteous minister.
Zanu PF is like a scorpion overwhelmed
by army ants, the economic meltdown, snapping its claws and stinging anyone and
everyone except the ants!
Minister Mushowe must remember that
he will not always be a Minister; the economic meltdown is going to end with
regime change. One should be careful of how the treat others whilst they are in
high office because they are bound to meet those people again on the way down!
As the economic meltdown gets and the pressure on Zanu PF to accept regime change be-comes more and more unbearable the regime will resort to more and more disparate measures to stay in power.
ReplyDeleteTyrants like Mugabe are never satisfied even after 36 years of absolute power and a life of unparalleled comfort and luxury he still wants more regardless of the suffering and deaths ordinary people have had paid over the years. He wants them to make even greater sacrifices. If he cannot have all he wishes for and is coming under increasing pressure to give up abso-lute power and all it brought him then he would rather push the self-distract button just as President Assad of Syria has done.
For the last 36 years Mugabe has spent a fortune on arms to defend his dictatorship and now he would want to use those arms to destroy the nation. If he cannot have what he wants then no one else is going to have anything. "Shai sano!" as one would say in Shona.
Mugabe will love to drag the whole nation into the abyss with him; our greatest challenge is to end his tyrannical rule and yet foil his machinations for the nation to descend into chaos and lawlessness after he is gone. Nothing would please him more that for people to look at his decades of tyrannical rule as the golden age compared to what followed!
@ Caitlin Kamba
ReplyDelete“The People First project by Joice Mujuru is one typical manipulation of human anxieties dwelling on people's emotions like fears, likes and hope. Hence, its ghost approach to politics with a plethora of exaggerations and perceived clandestine strategies and defections,” you said.
Well congratulations for you are spot on with your analysis there. As a Mugabe apologist yourself you know how good the tyrant is at playing with the people’s fears and hopes. You would also know how often he has backed his threats of violence with harassment, beatings, rape and even cold blooded murder – something Mai Mujuru and PF are not in a position to do, at least not yet.
Still you cannot blame Mai Mujuru for using the same dirty tactic; she learnt them all at the feet of the most notorious tyrant in the nation’s history – Mugabe himself! In a way the chicken have come home to roost, Mujuru is giving Mugabe a taste of his on medicine!
Now that Mugabe pushed the self-distract button, Zanu PF is on course to implode and there is nothing anyone can do now to stop the process. Nothing!