From Libya to Madagascar, Russia has been carving out a niche in Africa in part by shoring up strongmen in unstable but potentially rich states. The Kremlin has made the region a focus of its efforts to reassert geopolitical prowess and open new markets for domestic companies hamstrung by Western sanctions. Putin will host more than 50 leaders from the continent for the first Russia-Africa summit this year.
It is the “shoring up of strongmen” that we in Zimbabwe and the rest of Africa find detestable about countries like Russia and China’s involvement in our country. Zimbabwe’s economy is in total meltdown after 38 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. Unemployment has soared to dizzying heights of 90% and ¾ of our people now live on US$1.00 or less a day. The Zanu PF regime should have collapsed a long time ago and no amount of shoring up can save it from being removed. Zanu PF will go!
According to AFP, five Zimbabweans have been killed in the fuel hike protests.
Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce chief executive officer Christopher Mugaga said businesses, and retailers in particular, stood to lose at least $5m for every day they were closed.
“We have looked at it. We are talking of an average $5m per day in sales, especially in the retail sector. This also comes in a month we have lost a lot of productive hours in fuel queues. So January will be the lowest in terms of productive hours,” said Mugaga.
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because of 38 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption under the Zanu PF rule. The party has rigged elections and the nation has allowed the regime to get away with it because the people preferred to appease the thugs than standing up to them. The nation has paid dearly for its policy of appeasement . And now with the national economy in total meltdown the nation must wrestle these seasoned Zanu PF thugs and force them to step down of the nation is doomed!
Zanu PF rigged last July’s elections, the party has no mandate to govern and it must step down. This is now the nation’s number one priority and for once, I wish Zimbabweans had the Spartan “No retreat! No surrender!” resolve.
Kirsty joined the Zanu PF cabinet knowing the party had just rigged the July 2018 elections and had just shot 7 unarmed civilians on the 1 st August to discourage any would-be rigged elections protesters. She agreed to join the cabinet for the money and prestige that comes with being a minister.
If she thought that Zanu PF would suddenly stop being a party of corrupt and vote rigging thugs just because she was a cabinet minister, then she is naive.
Those calling Kirsty, an “honest woman of integrity” and saying she should resign over the brutal response by Zanu PF to silence the people over the fuel hike and the country’s worsening economic meltdown are the ones who are naïve and hypocrites. Kirsty Coventry is no more honest than Professor Mthuli Ncube and many other Zimbabweans professional who have served the Zanu PF regime in various capacity for the money and prestige!
“What people like Kirsty Coventry, Professor Mthuli Ncube and, of course, the usual Zanu PF members and apologists did by agreeing service in the regime was give it political recognition and credibility. This Zanu PF regime is illegitimate and anyone who thinks the regime would accomplish anything of substance is naive and insane, especially after 38 years of appeasing the regime has brought ruins!”
This is the real tragedy in Zimbabwe, we have professionals whose ethos is if you cannot beat them, join them and hence have turned a blind eye to all Zanu PF’s wrong doing for the sake of getting a share of the spoils of power. Of course, people like Kirsty and Mthuli know Zanu PF rigged last July’s elections they are pretending the elections were free, fair and credible for no better reason than they are ministers and nothing else matters.
Zanu PF has used its economic advantage to amass many professionals to do its dirty biding in helping the regime rig elections and cover up. MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform in five years because Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office.
Zimbabwe would not be in this mess if our professional man and woman would act honourably and stop propping up this corrupt and tyrannical regime for selfish gain.
From Libya to Madagascar, Russia has been carving out a niche in Africa in part by shoring up strongmen in unstable but potentially rich states. The Kremlin has made the region a focus of its efforts to reassert geopolitical prowess and open new markets for domestic companies hamstrung by Western sanctions. Putin will host more than 50 leaders from the continent for the first Russia-Africa summit this year.
ReplyDeleteIt is the “shoring up of strongmen” that we in Zimbabwe and the rest of Africa find detestable about countries like Russia and China’s involvement in our country.
Zimbabwe’s economy is in total meltdown after 38 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. Unemployment has soared to dizzying heights of 90% and ¾ of our people now live on US$1.00 or less a day. The Zanu PF regime should have collapsed a long time ago and no amount of shoring up can save it from being removed. Zanu PF will go!
According to AFP, five Zimbabweans have been killed in the fuel hike protests.
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce chief executive officer Christopher Mugaga said businesses, and retailers in particular, stood to lose at least $5m for every day they were closed.
“We have looked at it. We are talking of an average $5m per day in sales, especially in the retail sector. This also comes in a month we have lost a lot of productive hours in fuel queues. So January will be the lowest in terms of productive hours,” said Mugaga.
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because of 38 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption under the Zanu PF rule. The party has rigged elections and the nation has allowed the regime to get away with it because the people preferred to appease the thugs than standing up to them. The nation has paid dearly for its policy of appeasement
.
And now with the national economy in total meltdown the nation must wrestle these seasoned Zanu PF thugs and force them to step down of the nation is doomed!
Zanu PF rigged last July’s elections, the party has no mandate to govern and it must step down. This is now the nation’s number one priority and for once, I wish Zimbabweans had the Spartan “No retreat! No surrender!” resolve.
Kirsty joined the Zanu PF cabinet knowing the party had just rigged the July 2018 elections and had just shot 7 unarmed civilians on the 1 st August to discourage any would-be rigged elections protesters. She agreed to join the cabinet for the money and prestige that comes with being a minister.
ReplyDeleteIf she thought that Zanu PF would suddenly stop being a party of corrupt and vote rigging thugs just because she was a cabinet minister, then she is naive.
Those calling Kirsty, an “honest woman of integrity” and saying she should resign over the brutal response by Zanu PF to silence the people over the fuel hike and the country’s worsening economic meltdown are the ones who are naïve and hypocrites. Kirsty Coventry is no more honest than Professor Mthuli Ncube and many other Zimbabweans professional who have served the Zanu PF regime in various capacity for the money and prestige!
“What people like Kirsty Coventry, Professor Mthuli Ncube and, of course, the usual Zanu PF members and apologists did by agreeing service in the regime was give it political recognition and credibility. This Zanu PF regime is illegitimate and anyone who thinks the regime would accomplish anything of substance is naive and insane, especially after 38 years of appeasing the regime has brought ruins!”
ReplyDeleteThis is the real tragedy in Zimbabwe, we have professionals whose ethos is if you cannot beat them, join them and hence have turned a blind eye to all Zanu PF’s wrong doing for the sake of getting a share of the spoils of power. Of course, people like Kirsty and Mthuli know Zanu PF rigged last July’s elections they are pretending the elections were free, fair and credible for no better reason than they are ministers and nothing else matters.
Zanu PF has used its economic advantage to amass many professionals to do its dirty biding in helping the regime rig elections and cover up. MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform in five years because Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office.
Zimbabwe would not be in this mess if our professional man and woman would act honourably and stop propping up this corrupt and tyrannical regime for selfish gain.