"I know some of you
have been saying 'why are you praying'. There is no dialogue between man and
man which is not ordained by God. Now that we have dialogued with God, we have
to dialogue man and man; and to be able to do that, we have to take some
practical steps going forward and those decisive steps are going to be
announced to you in due course," said Nelson Chamisa.
I am not a theologian,
still I know Magaba theology when I hear it. This is just Magaba theology at
its brainwashing worst.
For the benefit of those
who do not know Harare well enough to know this place called Magaba; this is
the place in Harare, near Rufaro Stadium, where you can buy all manner of
recycled rubbish. True enough, most of the stuff would have been recovered from
the rubbish dumps.
In the mid-1980s I bought
a tyre in Magaba that looked as good as new (the shortages we are seeing today
are not new but rather a recurring nightmare). I soon discovered Magaba’s jacks
of all trade and masters of rubbish had plugged an inch-long cut in the tyre! A
tyre bursting whilst travelling at speed is deadly! Those Magaba jackasses do
not give a damn!
Chamisa must stop peddling
his Magaba theology!
If all dialogue “between
man and man is ordained by God” then is there so much lying, deceitfulness and
evil among mankind?
Was it not the Lord Himself
who gave Moses the Ten Commandments, the laws to govern who mankind was to
relate to God and to each other? Did He not give mankind a discerning mind to
know right from wrong and those who acted wisely have enjoyed peace and prosperity
whilst those who have acted foolishly have suffered and perished.
Zimbabwe’s economic
troubles, trial and tribulations are man-made; there are a product of decades
of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption, lawlessness and greed. This is
decades of man to man foolish dialogue; we, as a nation chose, to go down this
path; it was not a fate “ordained by God”.
Today Zimbabwe is at a
political cross-road; following last year’s rigged elections we have a many
different routes to follow:
a)
Following the
rigged elections Mnangagwa and his cronies declared themselves the legitimate
winners of the elections, seized the instruments of government and presented
the nation with a fait accompli. We can accept this illegitimate government and
the consequence of having a pariah state that we can see already.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt,
incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs the country will never enjoy any
meaningful economic recovery. No one likes to do business with thugs.
b)
MDC is
offering to fraudulently declare Zanu PF legitimate if Mnangagwa agrees to
appoint Chamisa and other MDC leaders cabinet members. It is fraudulent because
it is not for MDC to decide who is legitimate and who is not; only the people
in a free, fair and credible elections can do this.
Chamisa has claimed to have “the key to unlock the economy”. He is
bluffing. Zimbabwe’s pariah state status will not go away just because Zanu PF
has a few MDC cabinet members.
Chamisa’s Magaba theology that the Zanu PF and MDC GNU is course “ordained
by God” will fool many naïve and gullible Zimbabweans, not the savvy international
community and investors.
c)
The last
option is to bite the bullet and demand that Zanu PF is illegitimate and must
step down. If we are serious about wanting to revive the economy, then we must
end the curse of rigged elections and pariah state. We cannot end the decades
of misrule by keeping the dictatorship that is causing the misrule but by
getting rid of it!
I am not an economist much less a professor of anything but common sense alone told me that the Zimbabwe government's claim that inflation was 175.6% was understated. The price of fuel alone since January had soared 456% in the first six months alone. So Professor Steve Hanke's figure of inflation now at 570% makes a lot of sense.
ReplyDeleteProfessor Mthuli Ncube was asked if he believed last year's elections were free, fair and credible and he said that they were. Of course, he was lying and showed him for what he was a technocrat who would sell his soul and professional principles for the sake of the high profile position of Minister of Finance! It is a great tragedy that Zimbabwe has more than its fair share of these professional prostitutes!