Mugabe promise to "improve conditions" of public servants - back to the empty "Gutsa ruzhinji" promises!

We have come a long way as a nation but not even the most pessimistic critic who have predicted that in 33 years Zimbabwe would be in such a mess. A few Zimbabweans are unbelievably rich, multi-millionaires some of them. Millionaires amongst millions living in total abject poverty.

 

Unemployment has soared to 90% and, for the last ten years has stubbornly refused to come down.

 

“The government is concerned about the welfare of members of the public service, and will continue to implement strategies aimed at improving their conditions of service,” Mugabe said to cheers from the gathered thousands at the commemoration of Heroes Day.

 

What happened to the “gospel” of mass prosperity – {gutsa ruzhinji}. It was quietly forgotten when it was overtaken by the reality of mass poverty!

 

How did we get here? I will tell, years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption by none than Mugabe himself. He is the only who landed us in this mess. And, like all tyrants, he has stubbornly maintained that he is the only one who can get the nation out of the mess; which is why we have been stuck all these years.

 

Mugabe will no doubt want to use so of the Marange diamonds wealth to make a few more millionaires but has no answers for the millions now living in grinding poverty and despair. His answer to them is increased political repression; he is already building a $200 million Spy University for his 300 000 strong army of CIOs!