“During a post cabinet briefing held on Tuesday, Information Minister, Monica Mutsvangwa said government does not dispute the need to give a cost-of-living adjustment to workers but it was faced with various competing national demands which include payment of annual bonuses that will take a significant portion of resources,” reported Bulawayo 24.
“In addition, said Mutsvangwa, government is putting measures to "contain loss of the workers purchasing power and request worker representatives to provide three nominees to attend a Tripartite Negotiating Forum Technical Committee workshop."
"The workshop is aimed at coming up with a Social Contract that is aimed at bringing the parties to a common position.
"This may result in the freeze of incomes and prices," said Minister Mutsvangwa.
What good will it be to the worker whose salary has increased by a misery 50% in the last 12 month given that prices have surged upward by a staggering 350% in the same period. Freezing the wage and prices will be tantamount to the worker accepting a 300% wage cut! Worse still, most of the workers were being paid far below the US$650 poverty datum line to start with.
Zanu PF rigged last year’s elections and was cocksure the party would deliver economic recovery too. Well the regime must now admit that it has failed to revive the economy and, more significantly, the party must now step down.
By blatantly rigging last year’s elections Mnangagwa confirmed that Zimbabwe was still a pariah state ruling by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs. No one like to do business in a pariah state - have all should know this by now after all Zimbabwe’s economic nose dive has lasted these last 20 years after Mugabe confirm Zimbabwe was a pariah state.
The only sure way to end Zimbabwe’s pariah state is for Zanu PF to step down so the nation can appoint an interim administration whose primary task would be to implement the democratic reforms leading to the holding of free, fair and credible elections. Zimbabwe needs a fresh start!
Both Zanu PF and MDC leaders cannot be appointed in the interim administration because they were the key players in the 2008 to 2013 GNU which failed to implement even one meaningful democratic reform. Not one!
The people of Zimbabwe have suffered and many have died since Zimbabwe gained her independence in 1980 all because the country failed to establish a healthy and functional political system. The nation’s top priority right now is to end the tragic human suffering and lose of lives.
The country has another golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms designed to dismantle the dysfunction de facto one-party dictatorship and replace it with a democratic system of government. It would be unforgivable to fail the nation once again all because we sort to appease the corrupt and tyrannical ruling elite!
Zanu PF must step down, the party rigged last year’s elections and is, per se, illegitimate. That is not negotiable!
The root cause of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown is the 40 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. Zanu PF rigged last year's elections and thus confirmed that Zimbabwe was still a pariah state. We must now deal with this problem of pariah state once and once for all!
ReplyDeleteZanu Pf must step down so the nation can finally implement the democratic reforms design to end the curse of rigged elections. Nothing of any substance can ever be accomplished until we deal with this curse!
Government has money to buy new cars for minister, to bankroll utterly pointless anti-sanctions demos, POLAD and MPs jaunts, to say nothing of the millions being looted from Marange and other places but has no money to pay doctors, teachers and other civil servants a living wage!
ReplyDeleteZanu PF has failed to revive the economy because the party has failed to end corruption, mismanagement and to assure investors the country is no longer a pariah state! The party must step down and stop holding the nation to ransom!
So Professor Mthuli Ncube proposed a ZWL$ 28 billion budget and was forced to increase it 300%! One does not need a degree in economics to know this would fuel inflation - the very thing the Minister promised will be below 10% by the end of the year! For all his mastery economics, finance, etc. he has been bamboozled by the Zanu PF thugs into pursuing their voodoo economics.
ReplyDeleteIncreasing the salaries and allowance of the soldiers, Police and CIO 300% will not placate them for long if inflation is 700% and doing so certain to fuel inflation to soar even higher!
The mentality of this Zanu PF regime is worrying. The regime is not doing anything to end the country's worsening economic meltdown which affects everyone. It is not worried about the ordinary people becoming restive as it is investing heavily on arming the security services personal to the teeth and bribing them with hefty wage increases.
I agree, this is not solving anything other than digging the nation deeper and deeper into this economic mess!
Mnangagwa and his cronies have no clue how to revive the nation's economy and yet they have no intention of giving up power. They risked life and limb in wrestling power from Mugabe in November 2017 and now they believe they have the divine right to rule the country regardless of their track record of blundering from pillar to post.
The big issue before us is to settle once and once for all whether or not Zanu PF has the divine right to rule Zimbabwe. We have avoided addressing the issue for the last 39 years and have paid dearly for it. We cannot avoid addressing the curse of rigged elections and bad governance for one more day!
Zanu PF is illegitimate, the party has no mandate to govern much less a divine right to do so. The regime must step down to allow the nation to implement democratic reforms leading to free, fair and credible elections. This is the only way to end the economic crisis and Zanu PF must not be allowed to hold the nation to ransom for one more day as it has done these last 39 years!
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ReplyDeleteThe whole Zanu PF regime is still in power only because we have a breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent MDC - if MDC had implemented the reforms to guarantee free, fair and credible elections Mnangagwa et al will not be in power! Indeed, many of them will be in Chikurumbi vachirumwa neimba!