Zimbabwe is in serious economic and political trouble and there many reasons why this is so. One of these many reasons is the country is cursed with having more than its fair share of corrupt and incompetent village idiots with a big mouth.
“We cannot deny it, the atmosphere has changed. There is now freedom of speech and expression in this country, people can now openly talk and some actually scold the President,” said Rev Andrew Wutawunashe.
“I have realised that this is all because of freedoms in this country. The atmosphere has changed, the playing field has changed, hence there is no need for inhumane methods like sanctions.
“The most direct and devastating effect of these sanctions has thus been catastrophic unemployment levels, poverty, extreme damage to health and other services and a general crippling economic stagnation all of which have burdened and oppressed the poor.”
Sanctions is just a red herring that Zanu PF and its apologists want to come back to again and again just to draw attention away from the real big issues the nation is facing. The Americans made is very clear, hold free, fair and credible elections and they will lift all the sanctions. The question Rev Wutawunashe must therefore answer is: Were the recent elections free, fair and credible?
Only a first class village idiot would pretend an election in which the regime failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll can ever be considered free and fair!
The elephant in the room here is not the sanctions but the pariah state. The root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is the criminal waste of human and material resources through gross mismanagement and rampant corruptions. It is the criminal waste of resources that cripple the national economic and cause abject poverty.
In 2016 Mugabe admitted that the nation was “swindled $15 billion in diamond revenue”. To this day, not even one of the swindlers has been arrested and not one red cent recovered. No nation on earth can afford this level of economic haemorrhage much less one with a GDP of $10 billion, like Zimbabwe.
It is shocking that people like Wutawunashe are quick to blame the sanctions for causing the country’s economic meltdown but have yet to produce the evidence of how that is so but ignore the more obvious cause of the criminal waste of resources by the country’s ruling elite.
Like every other Zimbabwean citizen, Wutawunashe has sworn duty to do something to help end the criminal waste of resources by the ruling elite. Sadly, he elects to say nothing to Zanu PF thugs but instead focus his time and energy trying to get foreigners, over whom he has very little influence, to change their policies towards Zimbabwe.
It is typical of the army of Zimbabweans idiots out there; they spend all their time and energy on what is NOT in their power to change and neglecting those in they can change! No wonder the country is in a mess.
Ordinarily the country would have dealt with the wasteful ruling elite by holding them to democratic account and the ultimate censure of which is to remove them from office. We have failed to do this in Zimbabwe.
Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies have usurped the people’s power, freedoms and rights to create a de facto one-party state. The nation has been stuck with this corrupt and tyrannical regime for 38 years because Zanu PF rigged the elections.
When President Mnangagwa got into power last November, after the military coup, he promised to hold free, fair and credible elections. We now know that he has failed to keep that promise, he blatantly rigged the elections to confirm Zimbabwe’s status as pariah state.
Zimbabwe has failed to attract the much needed foreign direct investment because no investor and lender would want to do business in a politically and economically unstable pariah state. The regime and its apologist pretend it is the sanctions that are holding back economic recovery but that is a lie.
The most important task for us all is to pressure Zanu PF to ensure democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible are implemented. The sanctions are an integral part of pressure regime; those calling for the sanctions to lifted have no idea what they are wittering about.
“The atmosphere has changed!” The only change worth candle is one to guarantee free, fair and credible elections and thus lift the pariah state curse!
@ Lord Forbid
ReplyDeletePolitics and religion are the two careers attracting some of the country's worst criminals and it is no surprise church leaders are today de facto political commissars. Mnangagwa is under increasing pressure from the worsen economic situation and Wutawunashe and his fellow church leaders cum Zanu PF apologists are doing their bit to help find a scapegoat for the poverty.
Africa is said to have the resources and the brains to catapult itself from underdevelopment to a more developed continent given the political will of its leaders with more responsibility going towards the 2063 target.
ReplyDeleteSo the AU Extraordinary Summit will see the AU sign posting its road to more independent from the donor funding.
This is just wishful thinking!
In the 1980s and 1990s Africa has obsessed about the millennium 2000 goals but as time approached the focus shifted to 2020, this shifted to 2030 and now 2063. No effort was ever made to articulate the short and medium goals and why each period’s goals were never accomplished. African leaders have learned to focus on the mirage as the distraction from the grim immediate reality.
President Mnangagwa’s decision to rig the recent elections has made it impossible for the country to achieve any meaningful economic recovery because no one wants to do business with a pariah. He does not want to talk about this immediate problem and his performance in the last year. He is only interested on what he believes he will accomplish in 2030!
“An unmoved President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday insisted opposition leader Nelson Chamisa must appear before the commission of inquiry investigating the deadly August 1 shootings, which left at least six civilians dead in Harare,” reported Daily News.
ReplyDeleteYes, Chamisa must explain who organised the “stupid rats”, as he decided to call the street protestors!
"It is typical of the army of Zimbabwe idiots out there; they obsessed about things over which they have NO power to change and neglect those they can change! No wonder the country is in a mess," you said.
ReplyDeleteIt is very disappointing to hear you say that particularly because it is true! The amount of time, sweat and treasure Zimbabweans have spend on trying to get the West to lift the sanctions is amazing. If these busy-bodies had spent a fraction of the time and effort in pressuring Zanu PF to restore the people's freedoms and rights the country would have ended the Zanu PF dictatorship a long time ago!
There was a article of someone in the USA who gave Zimbabwe as an example of what happens to a country under bad leadership. The individual was pressure to resign. As a Zimbabwean, I was disappointed that the country was now the archetype failed state but would have never fired the guy because I know we are a failed state.
the country is heading for serious trouble and those who pretend that the country has changed for the better since last November's military coup are naive. You are 100% right the really change that counts here is whether the regime has done anything to end the cancerous problems of mismanagement and corruption and dismantled the de facto one party dictatorship.
What good is it to the nation that one is able "to scold Mnangagwa" when the nation is still stuck with a pariah state because he rigged the elections!!!!
The very fact that so many opposition candidates, many of them highly qualified individuals like DR Nkosana Moyo and Dr Noah Manyika, agreed to take part in the recent elections even when it was clear the regime had failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters' roll speaks volumes about these candidates. If they cannot get their heads round the critical importance of a voters' roll what kind of leaders would they have made even if they had been elected!
@ Amos Wutawunashe
ReplyDelete“What is really shocking in my opinion is that anyone would support the sustenance of sanctions against their own country,” you say.
“What is idiotic is an assumption that people should not voice their own position on this subject of sanctions. At any rate if one is such an apologist of these sanctions what good have they done for Zimbabwe to date for one to be so passionately inspired against those who call for their removal? It is so sad that intellect could be wasted on a cause to support sanctions…”
Well, if you are going to defend Rev Wutawunashe’s position on this matter then you should answer the critical question Patrick raised: “Were the recent elections free, fair and credible?”
His whole argument is based on the answer to the question being NO, the elections were rigged.
The root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is that mismanagement and corruption have been allowed to grow and spread into the ruinous cancer they are today because the nation was stuck with these corrupt and incompetent Zanu thugs for the last 38 years. The people could not remove the thugs because they rigged elections.
It is the mismanagement and corrupt that have cause the economic meltdown and hence the economic hardship our people are facing. We cannot end these two cancerous problem unless we can stop Zanu PF rigging elections. So if sanctions are putting the pressure on Zanu PF leaders to hold free, fair and credible elections that surely is in the nation’s interest.
Before independence many blacks supported the UN sanctions imposed of the white colonial regime because is help put the pressure in the drive to end white colonial rule. The sanctions are now being applied to help end a corrupt, vote rigging and tyrannical dictatorship. What is wrong with that?