"Be proud of freedoms espoused by 2nd Republic" - it is flip side 1st, a pariah state P Guramatunhu

"Our freedom, independence and the proud heritage left for us by our departed heroes and heroines who paid the supreme sacrifice for the freedom we enjoy today. We have within our blood, the traits of bravery, valour and resilience passed on to us by generation upon generation of our departed," said Mnangagwa in his Independence Day address.

"As we reflect on the path we have walked and the road ahead, we must draw lessons from the actions of our freedom fighters and the principles that guided them. Over the years, through sweat, struggle and tribulations we have survived and never surrendered or lost our hope.

"Today as we celebrate the birth of our nation, let us honour the values that underpin it. These values must drive us forward. We can no longer afford to be concerned with mere survival. Let us instead seek to blossom, thrive and prosper as a nation, as a people, towards a brighter future in the Zimbabwe we all want."

We are being told Zimbabwe is free and this is the Zimbabwe we wanted. How long are we going to tolerate these insults? The true heroes and heroines of this nation are turning in the graves to see what has become of this nation. 

Zimbabwe has become a highly polarised nation of the have everything and have absolutely nothing! The few Zanu PF ruling elite and their cronies and families and friends live in palatial mansion, have farms and other business empires, go outside the country for their education and health needs and, most important of all they enjoy absolute power.

In all the 39 years since Zimbabwe gained her independence the country is yet to hold free, fair and credible elections. “One man, one vote!” was the clarion call before independence but was trash soon after and forgotten. 

How can last year’s elections ever be judged free, fair and credible when 3 million, compared to the 5 million we are told voted, Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied the vote? The regime failed even to release something as basic for elections as a verified voters’ roll. 

The have absolutely nothing are the 90% who are unemployed, the 3/4 of the population now living on US$30 per month or less, the povo forced to make do with the local heath care services that has all but completely collapsed. Their suffering and misery is heart breaking and many are now dying of hunger, lack of medicine and other poverty related illnesses.

On the political front, the overwhelming majority who have been denied their freedoms and rights including their rights to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and the right to life itself! 

When the people have protested again the rigged elections, the corruption, the worsening economic hardships, etc. they have been subjected to savage brutality to cow them into silent submission. 

“The introduction of a market-based exchange rate system is expected to stabilise the economy, in the long run. However, Government is alarmed by the recent wanton and indiscriminate increases of prices which has brought about untold suffering to the people. This conduct by stakeholders in business, industry and commerce is inhumane, unethical, unpatriotic and goes against the grain of economic dialogue which the 2nd Republic has espoused,” Mnangagwa argues.

What 2nd Republic are you wittering about? Mr Mnangagwa, we all know that Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year’s elections and used brute force to ram the results down the nation’s throat. 

You have admitted that you have failed to end the scourge of corruption because it is “deep rooted”, you said. You claim that Zimbabwe under your leadership is different from the pariah state of Robert Mugabe, the truth is nothing has change. The 1st Republic and the 2nd Republic is just the flip side of the same coin!

As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs there will be no hope of any meaningful economic recovery. None! 

After 39 years of the nation sinking deeper and deeper into this economic and political hell-on-earth the least we must do is acknowledge that we are lost. The Zimbabwe in which the overwhelming majority have been denied their freedoms, human rights and humanity is not what the nation wanted. Zanu PF has dragged us into this hell-hole but worse still the regime is keeping us here but rigging elections and imposing itself on the nation. We must demand that Zanu PF steps down because the party has no mandate to govern since it rigged the elections. 

The ultimate expression of our national freedom and independence is that everyone must have a meaningful say in the governance of the country including the right to life. And when these basic freedoms and rights are denied, as has clearly happened in Zimbabwe, then they must be demanded. 

After 39 years of letting Zanu PF ride roughshod over our freedoms, rights and dreams; we must now demand free, fair and credible elections and mean it. What better way of prove our resolve and determination in our demand than punishing those who rig elections instead of the usual response of appeasing and rewarding the treasonous thugs! Enough is enough!

If USA "stand with Zim" then lift sanctions - only dimwit want sanctions lifted P Guramatunhu

“The United States of America Embassy in Harare has come under fire for posting a status on Twitter saying America stands with Zimbabwe as the country celebrate its 39th Independence,” reported Bulawayo 24.

"We congratulate Zimbabwe on 39 years of independence today." The Embassy said. "The United States remains a committed partner to the people of Zimbabwe and shares your hopes for growth, prosperity and a brighter future.  #WeStandWithZim."

In response one PT Chimusoro said, "You don't stand with Zimbabwe. You stand against Zimbabwe. If you stand with Zimbabwe, why put it under cruel sanctions? We are not as dumb as you think we are that you come and lie straight in our faces.”

Chimusoro, you are dumb. The issue of sanctions have been explained to you a thousand times and a thousand times again and yet you still fail to grasp even the most simple elements. 

Before last year’s elections the Americans explained to Mnangagwa that if he kept his promise and held free, fair and credible elections the sanctions will be lifted. He went on to blatantly rig the elections. ZEC failed to release a verified voters’ roll, something as basic as that, for Pete’s sake. 

The root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is the 39 years of incompetent and corrupt Zanu PF misrule and not the sanctions. Zanu PF has managed to stay in power these last 39 years against the democratic wishes of the people because the party rigged the elections. 

If we are ever to get out of the economic hell-hole Zanu PF landed us into then we must stop Zanu PF rigging elections. We must focus all our time and energy on getting Zanu PF to step down so we have free, fair and credible elections. The sanctions are part and parcel of the effort to force Zanu PF to step down - dimwit! 

The Americans are 100% correct in refusing to lift the sanctions and idiots like you Chimusoro are either benefiting from the Zanu PF dictatorship or are so thoroughly brainwashed you do not know what is in your own interest! The bottom line is that sanctions will stay! And middle finger salute to you, Chimusoro!

"Price control is way to go" - so ED rigged elections to impose voodoo economics P Guramatunhu

"For a country that has no currency of its own, no competitive industry and no jobs, price control is the way to go in order to protect the poor." said Deputy Minister of Information, Energy Mutodi. "It's very unfortunate that cabinet has not foreseen this but it's time we take necessary steps.”

Not again!

‘It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest,’ said the great Philosopher and Economist Adam Smith nearly 300 years ago. 

We have learnt about of this economic theory at school and first hand in our own dealings. This Zanu PF regime had price controls soon after independence and was forced to phase them out because they resulted in shortages and/or soaring black market prices. 

The regime resorted to price controls again in the early 2000s with the same result of shortages and soaring black market prices. It is really disheartening that we are going down this path once again! 

What is desperately annoying here is that Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies rigged last year’s elections, they do not have the democratic mandate of the people of Zimbabwe to govern the nation. So they imposed themselves on the nation only to impose their failed voodoo-economic policies that we know already that they do not work. 

Zimbabwe is standing at the very edge of the precipice, with unemployment a nauseating 90%, 3/4 of the population now living on US$30 or less per month, basic services such as supply of water and health care totally collapse, nation is facing chronic shortages and/or soaring prices, etc. The situation is socially, politically and morally unsustainable and it will not take much to send the nation down over the edge into social unrest or worse. 

OK, we have looked over the edge into the abyss and have seen that it is ugly. We must now step back! We must now demand that Zanu PF step down, the regime has no mandate to govern and it clearly has no clue how to revive the country’s economic meltdown. 

Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies do not have the divine right to govern the country against our collective will. They do not have the divine right to send the nation tumbling down into the abyss. It is our duty and responsibility to save ourselves and the nation. 

Zimbabwe’s serious economic meltdown is a result of 39 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF misrule. This is a man-made problem and per se within the powers of mortals to solve.

"Drop sanctions" said Washington experts - burning tyres producing obnoxious smoke but little heat and no light N Garikai

“Experts in Washington, discussing whether or not Zimbabwe is a source of shame or opportunity for Africa, were unanimous in their position that targeted sanctions were hurtful to the country, and must be removed, but equally held the government and the ruling Zanu-PF party accountable for the poor state of the economy and overall decline,” reported VOA.

But going through what these so called experts said, one will be disappointed to find very little evidence to support their claims and that they had nothing to say on many of the burning issues. We are no wiser from their expertise. The panellists were like burning tyres, they produced lots and lots of foul smelling smoke but very little heat and no light!

"Certainly ZIDERA which is still in the books and has been extended by President Trump - do they hurt the poor more than the ruling elite? There is a strong case that the sanctions do hurt the poor more than they hurt the ruling elite, which through corruption gets around the sanctions," said panellist Barry Wood RTHK Washington correspondent.

The Zanu PF government and its apologists have often blamed ZIDERA for IMF, WB and other international financial institutions’ refusal to grant Harare the much needed credit lines. But Barry Wood should know that this is just a feeble excuse because the credit lines dried up in 2000 because Zanu PF was not servicing its debt, long before ZIDERA which was imposed a year later. The Chinese have too stopped to grant Harare any loans for the same reason.

It is pleasing to note that Mr Wood acknowledges that corruption is a serious problem in Zimbabwe. In 2016 President Robert Mugabe admitted that Zimbabwe was being “swindled” out of US$15 billion in diamond revenue. It should be noted here that Zimbabwe’s GDP is US$10 billion. To date, not even one diamond swindler has been arrested and one dollar recovered.

Indeed we know the wholesale looting has continued because the mining has continued 24/7 and parliament was told that government was receiving 1/6 of the expected revenue.

Would Mr Wood, advance any credit lines to a regime that he knows is corrupt and wasteful? Of course, not! Yet he expects the IMF, WB, etc. to do so regards of country’s mounting debt and Zanu PF’s failure to repay!

"So how did Zimbabwe plunge to these tremendously low levels?" queried Professor Steve Hanke of Johns Hopkins University.

"We have property rights, number one. Two, money. Three, there's no hard budget constraints in Zimbabwe, a situation where you have no discipline, very weak institutions, no one is in control of fiscal affairs. When you have a soft budget and no hard budget constraint, and anything goes basically in the fiscal sphere. In the fourth item … the dominant political party, Zanu-PF is a party which operates much like an organized criminal syndicate or crime syndicate.

"So step one, unilaterally the US and the international community, to the extent the international communities involved should drop sanctions, and encourage, of course, the adoption of the 'Singapore Strategy' and stop talking about foreign aid. Foreign aid is not going to rescue Zimbabwe."

To start with the targeted sanctions have not worked because they were not followed up. Last week the Standard Bank was fined US$18 million for doing business with individuals on the sanctions list. There is no doubt that it was not the only institution that had ignored the sanctions and that this has been going on for years. The imposed sanctions will force everyone to clean-up their act and make sanctions work.

Second, until Professor Hanke presents us with more details on his “Singapore Strategy”, it will be foolish to abandon the only plan, sanctions, we have to fight the “crime syndicate”.

The West, especially the Americans, went to great lengths to explain to President Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime that if they honoured their promise to hold free, fair and credible elections the sanctions will be lifted. Not even one of the so called expert panellists could deny the elections were rigged. The regime failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll for Pete’s sake!

Zimbabwe is in this economic and political hell-on-earth because the nation has been stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical regime for 39 years. As long as Zanu PF retains its carte blanche powers to rig elections and use brute force to beat the people into submission the will be no escape out of this hell-hole!

Zimbabwe needs to end this curse of rigged elections and the sanctions are helping to highlight the people’s demand for democratic reforms leading to the holding of free, fair and credible elections.

There will certainly be cases of ordinary people suffering as a consequence of the sanction. Indeed, there are very few things in things world that will have positive effects and no negatives. Even with the very rigorous safety procedures there are still flying accidents, for example. Are we then to banish all flying because of the odd air craft crash! We must carefully weigh the benefit the sanctions bring on the one side against the all the suffering and hardship on the other.

If the imposing of the sanctions can help deliver free, fair and credible elections and end the Zanu PF dictatorship and all the suffering and deaths it has caused then bring on the sanctions!

It is interesting to note that Mnangagwa and his apologists, to the man and woman, supported the UN sanctions imposed against Ian Smith’s white racist government before independence. They all dismissed Smith’s counter argument that the sanctions caused untold economic hardship on the black majority. They are now saying Smith was right just because they are now on the business end of the whip. What a bunch of hypocrites!  

Sudan's revolution has melted the core - pray, new cast is not yet another dictatorship P Guramatunhu

“In his first televised address, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdelrahman said he was also cancelling a night curfew ordered by his predecessor and ordered the release of all prisoners jailed under emergency laws put in place by ousted President Omar al-Bashir,” reported New Zimbabwe.

“A coalition of groups leading the protests said it had accepted an invitation by the armed forces to meet on Saturday to discuss a new civilian government.”

In a rare but welcome show of visionary leadership the AU has reportedly give the military council two weeks to hand over power to civilian rule.

The days, weeks and months before and after revolution are the most important time in a nation’s history because, in that short window of opportunity, the nation’s core is melted and cast anew. If the new cast is deformed and hideous it can be improved upon whilst it is still hot and malleable but with each passing day it will be cooling and hardening.

Once the core is set the character and temperament of nation, whether democratic or tyrannical, will cast in stone. If the nation gets it wrong, it may take another generation or more for another revolution and another opportunity to melt the core and make a new cast. All this is a familiar tale in Zimbabwe.

In 1980 Zimbabwe had its golden opportunity to replace the racist and oppressive white colonial government with a just and democratic government in which the freedoms, rights and dignity of all were sacrosanct. Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs hijack the revolution and instead imposed a corrupt and tyrannical de facto one-party dictatorship on the nation. For the last 39 years the nation has been stuck with the dictatorship with tragic economic and social consequences!   

Sudan gained independence from Britain on January 1, 1956, after a military coup in Egypt forced the British government to grant Sudan independence. The country has blundered from one crisis to another because of bad governance; the last 30 years under the dictator Omar Al Bashir have been particularly bloody and chaotic.

The removal from power of Al Bashir has melted the core and the people of Sudan have golden chance making a new cast of Sudan. May God and Allah grant the people them the serenity and wisdom to cast a new Sudan the nation and posterity and we, their friends and well-wishers, can all be proud of! 

Mnangagwa has failed to revive economy and Gono to takeover 2020 - fail too W Mukori

Zanu PF hardliners are in panic mode and for good reasons, the economic meltdown is in overdrive! The country’s de fact local currency the Real Time Gross Settlement Dollar (RTGS$) has been losing more ground in a day than most other currencies in the region loose in a year! Real Time Gross Settlement - what a mouthful. If you do not want a dog, don’t get one! Why burden it with a cursed name. Dog - currency, same thing.

The uncontrolled and dangerous nosedive of the cursed RTGS$ is a barometer of the chaos and carnage in the economy. The RTGS$ was 2.5:1 to the US$ a month ago and has already dropped to 5:1. The price of bread has gone from RTGS$1.8 to RTGS$ 3.5. But it is the sorry state in our health service that underlines the depths of depravity this nation has sunk! 

We all know that doctors have been going to hospitals not to treat patients but to see them die and certify them died. What else could the doctors do without equipment to help in the diagnosis, no drugs, etc. Even big referral hospitals like Parerenyatwa and Mpilo Hospitals have often run out of something as painkillers and bandages! Things are a hell lot worse in the provincial and district hospitals. 

"All the people dying here are covered with blankets and they remain in the wards with patients until their next of kin claims the body. The situation becomes more complex when some bodies spend two to three days unclaimed," a nurse at Chegutu District Hospital told the Herald recently!

The paper said the hospital’s mortuary has been out of service for the last six months but given the advance state of decay and rot in the country’s infrastructure one is spoiled for choice as to why corpses are being left in wards. The mortuary is full/not working/ power cuts/ etc., there is staff shortage/ with wages not even enough cover transport cost, staff have stop going to work/ etc., with shortages of even the most basic things like gloves and washing soap how can anyone handle dead bodies in these conditions, etc. 

It is little wonder that Zanu PF hardliners are in a panic mode and the search for someone to replace Mnangagwa has gone up a gear. The idea is for the party to elect a new party leader at the end of year party congress who can then takeover from Mnangagwa soon thereafter.   

"The latest information as it stands now is that the leadership is reaching a compromise candidate that is seemingly acceptable to all and who is sellable to the international community. We have learnt that Former (Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe) Governor Gideon Gono's name has been touted as one of the people that might be given the task to take over the reigns of power.” Reported Bulawayo 24, quoting an unnamed senior Zanu PF official.

”Gono’s name has been touted because he is seen as a loyal person who is untainted. You will know that the shefs received loans during Gono's time. He is also seen as a person who can bridge the gap between Mugabe's loyalists and the second republic. 

"Another thing that the conversations tried to deal with was the ethnic issues. There was a feeling that the Zezuru clique wants to take over the party again."

Gideon Gono, “untainted”! Here is the man behind the crazy idea of printing money to solving the country’s economic problems. He fuelled inflation to the world record level of 500 billion per cent forcing the country to scrap the Z$. But the very fact that the regime is turning to Gono underlines just how desperate, desperate the party is for someone competent to drag the nation out of this economic hell-hole the regime land us in. 

Even if one was to accept that Gono has learnt his lesson and will never repeat the same or similar foolish mistake of printing money. Gono will probably have a lot more functional brain cells, giving him an IQ just a few points above that of an idiot, than Mnangagwa. Still, I can say here and now that Gono will NOT revive Zimbabwe’s economic. No chance! Never! 

I know Gono, like Mnangagwa before him, will fail to revive the country’s economy for two simple reasons:

1.           Gono’s political handlers and the same as Mnangagwa’s political handlers, the Zanu PF hardliners, will appoint Gono on one condition that he will never do anything to compromise their iron grip on power. The Zanu PF dictatorship complete with its dictatorial powers to rig elections and to use brute force to retain absolute power is not negotiable. As long as Zanu PF continues to enjoy absolute power, the hardliners know their privileged lifestyles are guaranteed; they will hang on to their looted wealth, top it up with fresh loot as the opportunities present themselves and they will never be held to account for the looted wealth and, worse still for many of them, the innocent blood on their hands.

2.           Gono, just like Mnangagwa will be naive enough to believe he can still deliver economic recovery even though the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. No doubt Gono will promise to hold free, fair and credible elections to sell himself as a democrat, knowing fully well his handlers will never allow him to keep that promise. He will also promise zero tolerance on corruption but, again, fail to deliver. “I know realise that corruption is deep-rooted!” was Mnangagwa’s feeble excuse for failing to end corruption.

In 1980 and for a decade or so afterward, the ruling elite and povo were one homogenous group with simple and easily satisfied needs and aspirations. Mugabe and his socialist policies of heavily subsidies education and health care, generous wage increases decreed by Mugabe himself on Workers’ Day, price controls of key commodities, etc. were popular with the Zanu PF leaders and the ordinary people. 

By the early 1990 it was clear Mugabe’s socialist policies were not sustainable and the regime was forced to abandon these policies. The Zanu PF ruling elite; composed of those in the party, government, civil service, the security service, etc. the party relied on to remain in power; flexed their political muscle and forced Mugabe to stop implementing reforms that affected them. This marked the separation of the ruling elite from povo. 

The ruling elite’s economic and political needs have not only grown in leaps and bounds but, more significantly, did so at the expense of the ordinary people. 

The ruling elite have been characteristically very demanding and wasteful. Mugabe seized the former white own farms to give to his demanding cronies and within a decade Zimbabwe lost its position as the breadbasket of the region to a country dependent on food aid. 

Decades of the criminal waste of human and material resources by Zanu PF has resulted in the economic collapse leaving the party with an ever shrinking national cake to feed the ruling elite whose appetite has become insatiable. There have been endless factional dog-eat-dog fight in Zanu PF as member fight over the shrinking wealth. The few winners have amassed unparalleled wealth whilst most of the losers often found themselves living in abject poverty within a few months of being booted out of the party. 

So Zimbabwe is now a divided nation with a few filthy rich ruling elite living cheek by jowl with a filthy poor majority. The ruling elite enjoy absolute power including the carte blanche power to rig elections and the military mighty to use wanton violence to impose their will. The majority have been reduce to no more than medieval serfs forever grovelling to their lords and masters - Zanu PF. 

For the last 39 years Zanu PF ruling elite have managed to use brute force to subdue the masses into accepting the false dichotomy in which they, the poor, have no freedoms, no rights, no dreams, no meaningful vote and even no life as a matter of fate. But with the worsening economic situation it is becoming increasing clear that the people are not going to suffer and die quietly like sheep in a slaughter house. 

Zanu PF ruling elite are hoping that they can string the nation along by replacing Mnangagwa with Gono just as the nation was mollified when the party replaced Mugabe with Mnangagwa. This is just wasting time, time the nation can ill afford to waste given the seriousness of the economic meltdown and the suffering and deaths it is causing.

There is no hope of any meaningful economic recovery as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. The Zanu PF ruling elite must give up their dictatorial powers including the powers to rig elections and to loot these powers are offensive and an affront to human dignity and all hopes to build a justice and prosperous Zimbabwe at peace with itself!

"IMF will re-engage to provide social protection" - just don't bankroll Zanu PF again N Garikai

"Well, first of all, I would like to reaffirm that we will be conducting a Staff Monitoring Programme with Zimbabwe. And it is particularly appropriate that we do that expeditiously, given the hardship and the loss caused by the recent cyclone,” Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the IMF. 

"I can assure you that, on the principle of the social protection of the most vulnerable, of inclusion, we will be deploying the principles by which we now operate.

"As I have announced to the IMFC this morning, a social protection framework is going to come up for discussion at the board in the next few weeks, and we will certainly endeavour to deploy social protection principles in the work that we do with the authorities.”

No Zimbabwean in their right mind would ever object to the IMF or anyone else helping the millions of Zimbabweans out there who are destitute. It is not only the victims of Cyclone Idai who need help, there are millions facing starvation because of the drought.

The impact of these natural disaster have been amplified as their effect is superimposed on long term man-made disaster of serious economic meltdown; brought on by decades gross mismanagement and rampant corruption which has caused unemployment to soar to nauseating heights of 90% leaving ¾ of the population living on US$30 per month or less. It would be wishful thinking to expect Madame Christine Lagarde’s global financial safety net catch all Zimbabwe’s destitute!  

The most important thing for all of us to remember here is that Zimbabwe is in this economic mess because the country has been stuck with this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF regime for the last 39 years. The regime has routinely rig elections to stay in power against the democratic wishes of the people. The regime rigged last year’s elections extending its rule and compounding the country’s economic mess.

The nation is caught is this vicious cycle of Zanu PF rigging elections so it can enjoy five years of corrupt and tyrannical rule ending with the party rigging the next elections to restart the cycle. The only hope of breaking this cycle is to force Zanu PF to step down.

The pressure on Zanu PF to step down has been steady growing from the worsening economic situation in the country and from countries like the USA and UK who have refused to re-engage the Zanu PF regime because it is illegitimate. We, ordinary Zimbabweans on the coal face of the worsening economic situation, would like to see the rest of international community, particularly the IMF, WB and EU, to support the targeted sanctions and all other measures designed to Zanu PF to step down.

It is therefore important that IMF’s and all the others toying with the idea of re-engaging Zanu PF must separate humanitarian reasons for doing so from the political and economic grounds. Zanu PF will never ever fully implement the economic and political reforms to guarantee free, fair and credible elections. That is a fact!

“Zanu PF ichatonga! Igotonga! Imi muchingohukura! Nokuhukura!” (Zanu PF will rule! And rule! Which you {calling for reforms} bark! And bark!) President Mnangagwa has often boasted to his cronies and publicly.

IMF and the WB stopped funding the Zanu PF regime in 2000 when the later stopped pay back its debts and blaming the Brentwood institutions for failed reform programmes. IMF voiced its disappointment and walking away leaving the ordinary Zimbabweans to suffer the consequences of the mountain of debt and, worse still, the two decades of misrule that followed.  

It would be unforgivable if the IMF renewed its financial assistance to Zanu PF and thus help regime stay in power till 2023 under the pretext the regime is implementing the reforms only for the regime to once again rig the elections! The IMF will walk away to leave the long suffering Zimbabweans, once again, suffer the consequences IMF’s folly and five more years beyond 2023 of this hell-on-earth.

IMF can help the destitute in Zimbabwe, just do not overreach and bankroll the illegitimate Zanu PF regime!  You will not be doing the long suffering people of Zimbabwe any favours.