This is just wishful thinking! Here is a regime that promised to hold
free, fair and credible elections only to blatantly rig the elections.
Mnangagwa promised “zero tolerance on corruption” and one year and half
later has failed to arrest even one of the big fish. He has since admitted that
“corruption is deep-rooted”. Of course, it is deep-rooted; he and his fellow
ruling elite leaders are the godfathers of corruption!
“For a while the challenges we face are significant, we are resolute in
our faith that with hard work, sacrifice and unity we too will triumph. May the
Almighty protect and bless our land,” he continued.
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political hell-hole because of 39 years
of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and tyrannical Zanu PF rule. The
regime has managed to stay in power regardless of the people’s democratic wish
for meaningful regime change because it rigged elections.
Zimbabwe’s economic and political mess is a man-made problem;
mismanagement, corruption, etc. are problems of bad governance. It is, per se,
within our mortal power to end this mess by replacing the bad government with a
good, competent and accountable government.
It is ironic that Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies are the ones who
have created the de facto Zanu PF dictatorship, ruthlessly imposed it on the
nation and ruthless resisted its dismantling. His solution is that we must have
faith and work hard. Have faith in what? In Zanu PF's voodoo economic policies
delivering economic recovery regardless of the corruption, mismanagement,
etc.!
After 39 years of Zanu PF misrule with disastrous consequences it will
be insane to expect the regime to delivery economic recover.
If Zanu PF is allowed to stay in office until 2023 the regime will rig
that year's elections too and retain Zimbabwe's pariah state status complete
with the economic meltdown we see today. No doubt Zanu PF will be arguing the
nation to work even harder, suffer even more heart-breaking hardship as part of
the "austerity for prosperity" and never to lose faith in the regime
delivering economic prosperity, its Vision 2030 Middle Income status.
Vision 2030 is nothing but a mirage and after 39 years of chasing
mirages; it is madness to continue. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state
ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs economic recover much less prosperity
will remain a mirage.
CHEGUTU residents will tomorrow take to the streets and demonstrate against acute water shortages that have persisted in the Mashonaland West Province town since 2008.
ReplyDeleteCombined Chegutu Residence and Rate Payers Association president Moffat Tembo told the Daily News that residents will assemble at the Town House at 8am for the protest.
"Ever since cholera hit the country in 2008 we have not had adequate water supply. In areas such as-PFupajena and Chegutu South Township people have had to resort to borehole and unsafe water sources to survive," Tembo said.
Ten years without the supply of clean water and, no doubt, the residents continued to receive their water bills and paid them! We want to believe that we are masters of our own destine but actually we are about as helpless as fallen leaves caught in the wind. The Zanu PF ruling elite are the masters of all us’ destine and they have frog marched us into the abyss.
In the long run, people get the government they deserve. This is certainly true of Zimbabwe; we certainly deserve this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship complete with its entourage of corrupt and incompetent opposition parties and candidates. 39 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF misrule and we continue to wring our fingers like two year old at a loss as what is going on much less what to do about it.
The country has had many golden opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship but the sell-out opposition have wasted them all. And yet many people still continue to follow the opposition like sheep to the slaughter.
It is pleasing to hear that Chegutu residents are waking up from their slumber and are demanding change. One only hopes this is the beginning of a wider nation-wide awakening and not a momentary glitch before they join the rest of the nation in their eternal sleep!
@ Daily News
ReplyDeleteThe new dispensation led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has claimed "Zimbabwe is open for business" but the fundamental conditions on the ground have not changed much from the repulsive ones that obtained during the reign of his predecessor — former president Robert Mugabe.
The ease of doing business, we are told has improved significantly but more needs to be done to attract foreign direct investment.
Besides, corruption has cost the economy dearly over the years and has almost become institutionalised.
So many cases that have been put into the public domain still have not found closure, denting the verve that Mnangagwa's anti-graft crusade seemed to reflect when he took over the reins from Mugabe.
You are spot on! All talk of economic recovery much less economic prosperity leading to Zimbabwe becoming a Middle Income nation spoused in Vision 2030 is just a pipe dream as long as the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging murderous thugs.
“Austerity for prosperity!” we are being told. Prosperity for the filthy rich ruling elite who continue to loot, yes. For the impoverished majority the economic meltdown is getting worse with nothing positive to come out of it all. For the ordinary Zimbabwean it is “Painful austerity for no economic gain!”
"With sanctions in place, it was an oversight on our part to introduce austerity measures as they have the tendency to slow down the economy while public anger rises due to price shocks and exchange rate driven inflation. This is in view of the fact that austerity measures encourage salary freezes and block government from spending its disposable income; creating a lukewarm economy characterized by suffering of the masses. Such conditions are favorable for civil unrests and even a rebellion as police and army officers tend to sympathize with the suffering public. It is therefore imperative that an inclusive government needs to be set up to allow a multi-faceted approach and cohesion in ending the current economic setbacks.
ReplyDeleteMutodi also spoke on the need for President Mnangagwa to give an amnesty to his erstwhile colleagues like Jonathan Moyo and his G40 cabal in efforts to achieve unity and chat an uncontested way forward towards ending sufferings and political and economic uncertainty.
If we are to address issues like Gukurahundi, then we will need dissenting voices to join in and be part of the solution so as to avoid any future escalation of conflict.
Let me say this again for the umpteenth time today alone; as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs there will be no meaningful economic recovery. Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF thugs are illegitimate and they must step down; period.
Allowing Chamisa and a few of his friends to join the pariah state will not change the character of the regime no more than the addition of such individuals as Kirsty Coventry and Mthuli Ncube did. The regime will still be a pariah ruled by corrupt, incompetent, etc., etc.
Chamisa has been boasting about having the key to economic recovery. He does not. Mnangagwa should appoint him just to shut him up!
The only way out of the economic and political mess we are in is for Zanu PF to step down or be forced to do so. The economic situation is so serious the country is now sitting on a ticking time bomb.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs there will be no chance of any meaningful economic recovery. None! It is heartening that this message is getting through and receiving increased acceptance.
ReplyDelete"The new dispensation led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has claimed "Zimbabwe is open for business" but the fundamental conditions on the ground have not changed much from the repulsive ones that obtained during the reign of his predecessor — former president Robert Mugabe," stated the Daily News in its Editorial.
"The ease of doing business, we are told has improved significantly but more needs to be done to attract foreign direct investment.
"Besides, corruption has cost the economy dearly over the years and has almost become institutionalised."
The argument by Mnangagwa, Mthuli Ncube and many other in the regime that the nation can still prosper regardless of the corruption, pariah state, etc. if we all buckle down and worker harder, have resolute faith and turn the other cheek to all the pain and suffering austerity will bring; is laughable. This comes from a regime that has never cared about the suffering and even death of the ordinary people. Zimbabwe would have never sunk into the depths of economic and political hell the country now finds itself in if these Zanu PF thugs had cared.
Only a callous thug with a heart of stone would justify the 2% transaction tax to squeeze a few dollars from those living on US$30 or less per month whilst allowing those looting billions of dollars a month go untouched.
If the truth be told and it must be told; Mnangagwa and his cronies now know that there will be very little hope of any meaningful economic recovery as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. This is a fact they will never publicly acknowledge much less do something about it. For they know that only thing that will be required is for them to end the corruption and give up their dictatorial power to rig elections. These they will never ever do, not without being forced to!
Mnangagwa and his cronies' principle task is to keep the populous' hopeful that the nation can still achieve economic recovery and prosperity regardless of the wholesale loot and the country being a pariah state. Evidence of the last 39 years shows that is nonsense because the nation has been sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss. Of course, it is insane to be doing the same things, to believe in the same foolishness, after all these years but that is exactly what the regime wants us to do!
Leaders of the protest movement have suspended talks and co-operation with the military. There had been hopes that the talks would lead to civilian rule.
ReplyDeleteA spokesman, Mohamed al-Amin, called the military council an extension of the old regime and said they no longer recognised it, adding that a civilian administration would be unveiled in the next couple of days.
There can be no doubt that 30 years of military rule in Sudan have brought nothing but economic ruin and yet Omar Al-Bashir cronies still see themselves as they only ones competent to rule that country. We, in Zimbabwe, are under the same corrupt and incompetent carry-on from Mugabe days.
The people of Sudan must stand firm in their demands for the military to step down. Please do not make the same foolish mistake we did in November 2017.
TENSION between Zanu PF and war veterans continue to simmer after former freedom fighters stormed out of the Independence Day celebrations in Bindura last Thursday after their leader was blocked from occupying a position at the top table.
ReplyDeleteThe tragedy of our liberation war is that it created a class of individuals who believe they are special and must be treated accordingly. The irony here is that the war veterans believe the Zanu PF ruling elite are special and what they are quarrelling about here is that they are not being treated by the ruling elite as special too! The ruling elite powerful and are now filthy rich and most war veterans are living in abject poverty and are powerless.
The ruling elite have called upon the war veterans to do the dirty work of terrorizing the civilians into submission, seizing the farms from the whites, etc. and have always dismissed the war veterans without even a thank you! No one with half a brain has any sympathy for these rogue war veterans!
We cannot, as nation, have a situation where freedom and human rights are enjoyed by those who carried the gun and denied others. We are not going to have liberation war in each generation!
The country's worsening economic situation has Mnangagwa is a real panic, he does not know what to do and which way to turn!
ReplyDeleteWhen he got into power in November 2017, he knew then that he had to address two demons; end corruption and hold free and fair elections to end Zimbabwe's pariah state. He has failed to deliver in the two key areas. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs there is no hope of any meaningful economic recovery. The penny has finally dropped and with it the panic!
Mnangagwa is hoping that by compensating the white farmers the world will forget his regime is corrupt and illegitimate and will re-engage and it will be business as normal. It is his last throw of the dice and, sadly for him, no one will be so easily fooled! Zimbabwe will not seize to be a pariah state just because the thugs have paid back a tiny fraction of the assets they looted from the whites!
To make matters worse, the thugs are forcing the country's impoverished taxpayers' to pay the compensation on their behalf because they cannot bear giving up even a faction of their looted wealth!