Tuesday 24 March 2015

Zim team to visit Germany but without reforms the trip would be wasted!


Zimbabwe will send a team to Germany to follow up on Germany’s offer to help end Zimbabwe’s worsening economic meltdown on condition there are meaningful economic and political reforms.

"The rule of law is very important in any legal system, it means that things become predictable. As we try to woo investors to come back, they will come into a system that is predictable, into a frame work where they can have recourse into the law and find remedies. And we will work very strongly to achieve that end," was Minister Patrick Chinamasa’s response to Ambassador Schmidt’s call for the restoration of the rule of law.

This is really tragic; the Zanu PF regime is still refusing to comprehend the seriousness of the country’s political and economic situation and thus treat the matter with the gravity it demands.

How many times has Zimbabwe been told that the country must end its lawless farm invasions and seizures, scrap its obnoxious indigenisation laws, etc.? How many times have Minister Chinamasa and other senior Zanu PF leaders promised to end the lawlessness and yet do nothing!

The Germans and the whole world have lost confidence in Zanu PF doing anything to restore the rule of law. We all know that too many Zanu PF leaders have too much to lose, their political careers, their looted wealth and big number of them have a very dirty past they simply cannot afford to let the world know. They know that restoring property rights will be the thin end of a thick wedge that will end up with the dreaded regime change. Have regime change and they have lost everything!

What Minister Chinamasa, his boss Mugabe and all the other Zanu PF cronies have to realize is that Zimbabwe is not going to get out of the economic crisis without regime change with restoring the rule of law and the economic meltdown is socially and politically unsustainable.  

The Germans are offering Zimbabwe a way out of the economic meltdown but they are not going to be fooled by Harare’s usual long speeches full of sound and fury but with no substance. The Germans are not interested in empty talk; they will not bankroll Mugabe’s ZimAsset; etc.

The Germans’ offer is simple enough; they will help Zimbabwe’s economic recovery and repay our national debt on condition that we implement meaningful economic and political reforms. The only way to meet that condition is for Zanu PF to step down and allow the implementation of ALL democratic reforms.

Unless the Zimbabwe team going to Germany is going with a serious proposal on how Zimbabwe is going to implement ALL the democratic reforms in the nearer future then the trip would be a wasted opportunity! Mugabe is running out of time and options to end the country’s economic meltdown; he can ill afford to waste this opportunity.  

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