Patients in cardboard splint, shops closing, etc. "it was as clear as day" vision 2030 is a mirage - that prompted someone accept ED2030 is dead and buried. W Mukori

 "I have my two terms, and when the time comes, the country and the party will move on by electing my successor. I have said clearly that I have two terms, and these two terms are definite," reiterated Mnangagwa at the Press Conference yesterday. 

"When they come to an end, I will step aside, and my party will elect my successor—that is as clear as day. Those who have other imaginations, we have a democratic society that allows them to dream.”

So Mnangagwa has given up his 2030 agenda because he is a DEMOCRATIC who respects the constitution! Yeah right! Since when?

Mnangagwa blatantly rigged the 2023. Both SADC and AU election observers condemning the election process as flawed and illegal and he dismissed them with the usual dismissive contempt. 

Just a year after rigging the 2023 elections he was already scheming how to extend his illegitimate mandate. He coerced Zanu PF to pass the October 2024 party conference resolution that he should be allowed to stay office until 2030 to deliver vision 2030. The argument was that he was the only leader who could be trusted to pull the nation out of poverty into the upper middle income status in record time.

The give away was why was the resolution being passed so early in his second five-year term? 

There was no evidence that Mnangagwa had done anything to revive the Zimbabwe economic in his first five year term. Indeed, the Zimbabwe economy has continued its nose-dive since Mnangagwa took over from Mugabe following the 2017 military coup. 

Mnangagwa promised to stamped out corruption in 2017. Corruption has gone into overdrive instead. 

Mnangagwa was cocksure his “Zimbabwe is open for business!” was going to open the flood gates of investors. Investors are shrewd lot, they were not fool by the musical chair of swapping one dictator for another; they knew the Zimbabwe was still a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs. 

The 2024 party conference resolution for Mnangagwa to stay in power till 2030 was rushed through because Mnangagwa knew vision 2030 was a lead balloon that would never fly, a mirage. When the few businesses and shops left are closing, people can see patients with broken limbs stripped up in cardboard, potholes even in the country’s major roads, etc. even the blind can see vision 2030 is a mirage. 

“I will step down in 2028 - that is as clear as day!” What is as clear as day is that vision 2030 is a lead balloon and since that was the justification for staying on till 2030, of course, you will step down in 2028!