Friday 6 May 2016

Musewe please, there will be no economic recovery without political reform. By Nomusa Garikai


“Talking to some people is worse than talking to a dog!” my Auntie Veronica used to say. “With the dog it will hear what is being said but not understand a word because dogs not understand language and the meaning of words. At least it understands body language and will know if you are angry or happy.

 

 

“Some people will hear what is said, know the meaning of the words and language, they will read the body language and yet after all that they still understand fvck all!”

 

 

My brother Vince Musewe is one those individuals who understands fvck all!

  

 

“PDP policies will seek to reverse this (collapse of social services, etc.) by first reviving the economy to create jobs and sustainable incomes,” he said in his latest article. He then went on to explain how PDP’s economic blueprint will help revive the economy.

 

 

How many times have people explained to Vince Musewe that Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is not because of bad economic policies per se but rather the country’s failure to stop the implementation of bad economic policies even when this has been established beyond all reasonable doubt.

 

 

Look at the indigenisation law it has been looked at from all possible angles and after many, many man-days the conclusion have been the same, the law is bad for business as it scaring away would be foreign investors. And yet 8 years after its enactment the law still remains on the statute because President Mugabe wants it there.

 

 

The challenge for Zimbabwe today is not one of failure to come up with good economic policies but rather of how to end President Mugabe’s dictatorial autocracy that is stopping the country implementing common sense policies and scrapping those that are so stupid, they defy common sense.

 

 

There is absolutely no point in brother Musewe pontificating week after week on the virtues of PDP’s economic blueprint HOPE when it will never see the light of day as long as Zanu PF remain in office.

 

 

With unemployment now at 90%, millions now living in abject poverty, etc. there need for economic reform could not be more urgent but there will not be any meaningful economic reform and recovery without meaningful political reforms, free and fair elections and regime change.

 

 

The Zanu PF’s no-regime-change mantra, the ideological justification for the de facto one-party dictatorship, is the one thing that has stop meaningful political change and economic growth in Zimbabwe. It is the elephant in the room we have dared not discuss for 36 years but must do so now.

 

 

Musewe keeps wittering about HOPE just to avoid dealing with the burning issue of meaningful political reform; we do not have the time to talk about his imaginary sugarcandy mountain world when we have press real world problems to deal with! So for the umpteenth time, brother Musewe, there will be no meaningful economic recovery in Zimbabwe until we accomplish meaningful political reforms and free and fair elections! If you are not going to help accomplish the political reforms, then shut the fvck up!

3 comments:

  1. Sadly Vince Musewe is a very single track minded person, now that he has set his mind on his grand coalition and has his HOPE economic blueprint in his briefcase it is going to be a real challenge to get him to see that the 2018 elections are far from won by the coalition.

    Throughout the GNU years it was a real tough battle to get Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC leaders including Tendai Biti, the leader of the PDP, to focus on implementing the democratic reforms. The MDC leaders were cocksure they had the election in the bag they did not need reforms. After five years of the GNU, they failed to implement even one reform. Mugabe want on to blatantly rig the 2013 elections.

    History has the habit of repeating itself especially when the nation has leaders with a knack for learning nothing from history like Musewe. We are now less two years away from the next elections and not even one democratic reform has been implemented and instead of all hands on the wheel to get the reforms implemented Musewe keeps yapping about PDP's economic policies.

    These opposition leaders cannot get their own heads round on what comes first the economic reforms or the political reforms! God knows how they will ever anything done even if they were to get into power!

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  2. "Talking to some people is worse than talking to a dog!" my Auntie Veronica used to say. "With the dog it will hear what is being said but not understand a word because dogs not un-derstand language and the meaning of words. At least it understands body language and will know if you are angry or happy.

    "Some people will hear what is said, know the meaning of the words and language, they will read the body language and yet after all that they still understand fvck all!"

    Good one that! You have made me have a good laugh!

    Your Auntie was a very clever woman! I just imagine her talking to her dog and getting a bet-ter response than she would get from some people. Some animals, especially dogs have more common sense than some people I know!

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  3. Former vice-president Joice Mujuru was among an impressive list of leading politicians and busi-nesspeople that spoke at a private reception for broadcaster and United States civil rights doyenne Xernona Clayton in Dubai yesterday.

    If these people are serious about building a better Africa then they should take the trouble to give a voice to those who have something constructive to say and not those whose only contribution was the destruction of Africa. Joice Mujuru is someone who was promoted way above her level of competency and in all her 34 years in high office has accomplished nothing of note other than allow corruption and tyranny to destroy Zimbabwe. What is there to honour in that!

    I have seen many villagers in Zimbabwe's rural backwaters bowled over by the title Vice President Joice Mujuru but were not so impressed after listen to her bubbling nonsense. One expected a lot better from one such as Xernona Clayton!

    Joice Mujuru is a corrupt, incompetent and useless individual alarm bells should have been ringing when one considered it is incompetent, corrupt, vote rigging and murderous tyrant who promoted her into high office in the first place!

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