“Zanu PF will never ever win free,
fair and credible elections!” this is a simple truth that even the most fervent
Zanu PF supporter will ready admit. The people are not stupid, they know the
party has failed to deliver mass prosperity “gutsa ruzhinji” President Mugabe
has often promised; the economic reality speaks for its.
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Gross domestic product (GDP);
Zimbabwe; 1970-2014
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year
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bln. US
dollars
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per
capita, US$
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growth,
%
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share, %
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current prices
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prices 1970
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current prices
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constant prices
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World
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Africa
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Eastern Africa
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1970
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2
|
2
|
395
|
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0.06
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1.9
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10.8
|
|
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1971
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2.3
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2.2
|
445
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8.8
|
0.063
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2
|
11.4
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
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1980
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7.1
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2.7
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995
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10.6
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0.058
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1.3
|
12.7
|
|
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1981
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8.6
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3
|
1166
|
12.5
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0.069
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1.6
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14.6
|
|
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1982
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9.2
|
3.1
|
1209
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2.6
|
0.074
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1.8
|
15.1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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2000
|
7.5
|
4.3
|
626
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-8.2
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0.023
|
1.2
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9.8
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|
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|
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|
|
|
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2007
|
6
|
3.2
|
454
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-3.3
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0.01
|
0.41
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4.1
|
|
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2008
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5.5
|
3.1
|
452
|
-4.7
|
0.0087
|
0.31
|
2.8
|
|
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2009
|
8.2
|
4.8
|
600
|
55.5
|
0.014
|
0.5
|
4.1
|
|
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2014
|
14.7
|
7.1
|
1044
|
3.1
|
0.019
|
0.59
|
4.7
|
|
|
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|
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Source: www.hushnirs.org/macroeconomics_/en/zimbabwe__gdp.html
President Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies are responsible for the nation’s
economic decline and no amount of denial or propaganda can hide this, the
figures speak for themselves.
From the word go President Mugabe has followed this spend, spend voodoo
economics, confident it would deliver “gutsa ruzhinji”. Of course this was
nonsense; Zimbabweans’ per capita earning rose from $995 to peak at $1209 and from
there now it has been downhill ever since.
Talk of the country’s pathetic economic performs and the Zanu PF
propaganda machine will, in a flash, go into overdrive. It is the “illegal
sanctions imposed by the evil British and their western allies” that are to
blame. The sanctions were imposed in 2002 and yet Zimbabwe’s economic decline
started way back in 1982.
The single most damaging act by President Mugabe was the violence seizure
of white-owned farms that started in earnest in 2000. He had very little of
value left other than the white owned farms to give away to his demanding but
wasteful cronies. The cronies got the farms but failed to maintain production;
agricultural production fell through the floor and, sadly, has never recovered to
this day.
Agricultural production was Zimbabwe’s economic engine and it is not
surprising that the Zimbabwe economy suffered its worst ever decline, - 8.2% growth
rate.
President Mugabe’s decision print money to finance his reckless spending
only forced the Z$ to lose its value fuelled inflation to a record 500 billion
per cent by the time the regime scrapped the Z$ in November 2008. This was the
year the economy sunk to its lowest ever; GDP per capita fell to US$ 452.
Life expectancy, the ultimate acid test of a nation’s wellbeing, has
plummeted from 68 years in 1980 to a misery 34 years in 2004 according to some
sources.
"Matadya kare haavaraidze mwana! Nyangwe benzi chikwinya renoriva
tsvete yamangwana, mangwana." so goes the Shona adage. (Memories of
yesterday's feasting will never comfort a hungry child. Even a certified fool
will soon learn not to chase the mirage of tomorrow!)
As the people realized that President Mugabe will never deliver gutsa
ruzhinji and were sick and tired of
being promised a mirage they harden their resolve to vote him out of office. So
to stay in power President Mugabe has resorted to dirty and dirtier tactics to
rig the vote including violence.
Whilst the Zimbabwe economy had registered some economic recovery during
the GNU years it has since the rigged 2013 elections been back on it’s the decline
once again. The regime is introducing bond notes in August/October; many see it
as the Z$ back through the back door and the days of hyperinflation as the
regime will soon be printing more bond notes.
If the country was to hold free, fair and credible elections, there is no
way Zanu PF would win! So why is the country’s opposition parties wasting time
of building coalitions, holding demos and Joice Mujuru and her ZimPF has joined
in this with a number of rallies lined up in the coming few weeks and yet doing
nothing to ensure the elections are free and fair, Nomusa Garikai and other has
been asking?
“If the 2018 elections are rigged then Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC
friends (Mujuru and her ZimPF too) will walk the plank to join Arthur Mutambara
into political retirement because they would have proven beyond doubt that they
corrupt, incompetent and useless! I will put them to the sword myself just to
be absolutely certain that this time these useless politicians finally retire
from all public life for good,” concluded Nomusa.
None of the opposition leaders -Tsvangirai, Mujuru, etc. – have the
intellect to take Mugabe head-on on this matter because they have no clue where
to begin. The 2008 GPA put the implementing of the democratic reforms, design
to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship to allow free and fair elections, at the
heart of the GNU. SADC Heads of State who were the guarantor of the agreement wanted
the reforms to be implemented but sadly MDC, their partner in the GNU, was not
interested. SADC leaders tried their best to get Tsvangirai et al to implement
the reforms but were ignored.
Of course Joice Mujuru and her Zim PF know Zanu PF is unelectable and
will lose free and fair elections but they too do not know how they can force
Mugabe to implement the democratic reforms.
Zimbabwe’s opposition have nothing to fear in Mugabe and his thugs but
fear itself. Even Mugabe himself has never dared to claim that the people have
no right to free and fair elections, he has no right to rig elections. As the
people’s elected representative, the opposition have the mandate to demand the
full restoration of the people’s freedoms and rights. Like all tyrants, Mugabe
is nothing but a paper tiger our opposition leaders are just too corrupt and
incompetent to see it!
If the 2018 elections are rigged because the opposition failed to
implement any democratic reforms then it is for the people of Zimbabwe themselves
must put Tsvangirai, Mujuru and company to the sword and force them into political
retirement. If you have a troublesome rat to get rid of it is sometimes necessary
to start by getting rid of the useless cat!
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