What makes Zimbabwe’s economic and political crisis so, seemingly, intractable is that not even those one would expect to offer solutions are doing so. Everyone, including the country’s leaders across the spectrum, is confused and running around like a headless chicken.
Someone, it is not clear who but that is now irrelevant, has suggested that getting the leader of ruling party, Zanu PF,President Emmerson Mnangagwa, to meet the main opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, would see all the country’s economic and political problem disappear like morning mist. The idea has caught on and the headless chicken brigade has jumped on the bandwagon, there is no stopping them!
Zimbabwe business executives are hosting this year’s CEO Africa Roundtable 2020 Edition in Victoria Falls and they are hoping to succeed where others have, so far, fail - get Mnangagwa and Chamisa to meet and talk!
“We have gone past the stage of trying to find how shallow or deeper our problems are but, to find solutions,” CEO Africa Roundtable chief executive officer Kipson Gundani argued.
“Of which in the solution equation, I think largely Zimbabweans agree that they have got their roots from our politics which are kind of toxic, which has kind of polarised our nation and until or unless we come together as Zimbabweans and start to believe again, then we can start thinking of solutions to this country.”
The 2020 CEO Africa Roundtable edition is taking place in Victoria Falls on 18th to 20th March. The two political leaders have been invited. They have not met since the July 2018 elections and all the stops are being pulled to encourage them to meet.
Just because you have a number of headless chickens agreeing on something that does not mean that is the solution. The majority is not necessarily right, especially when it is composed of the headless chickens!
The best possible outcome of the political dialogue between Mnangagwa and Chamisa will be the two agreeing on some power sharing arrangement. The two parties had a similar power sharing arrangement during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and they failed to implemented even one democratic reform designed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. There is nothing to suggest the two will do any better this time. Nothing!
The root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic and political crisis is the failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF rigged the July 2018 elections just as the party has rigged elections these last 40 years.
Zimbabwe is pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs and as long as the country remains a pariah state there will be no meaningful economic recovery. No one wants to do business with in a pariah state.
The IMF, WB, AfDB and all the other international institutions, from whom Zimbabwe has been hoping to get the financial assistance the nation needs so desperately to kick start the comatose economy, have all confirmed they will not give the country even one dollar. The country’s economic and political reforms are “off-track” said IMF.
The addition of MDC leaders to the illegitimate Mnangagwa government will neither transform the pariah regime into a democratic one nor miraculously get all the reforms on track. The proposed power sharing government will still be a Zanu PF regime in all but name, with or without a few MDC manikins!
What Kipson Gundani and his fellow Roundtable buffoons have failed to comprehend; just as the church leaders, other civic society leaders, etc., have done; is the exact nature of Zimbabwe’s economic and political crisis.
Mnangagwa and Chamisa are no more than two slave masters whose fundamental difference is that slaves cannot be whipped with the same whip used on horses! Getting the two to kiss and make up will resolve the fundamental issue - the abolition of slavery! in which one
Similarly, the fundamental issue here is ending the curse of rigged elections and pariah state. Getting Mnangagwa and Chamisa to kiss and make up will neither change the reality on the ground of the rigged July 2018 elections nor will it give cause to believe Zanu PF will not rig future elections!
How is it possible that so many Zimbabweans have no clue what the GNU was about, even now with the benefit of hindsight? And now the nation is sleep walking into yet another Zanu PF and MDC GNU that is bound to deliver nothing of substance!
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