Sunday 3 December 2017

Zimbabwe can be Singapore says Gono - not with "EDNomics" in a pariah State Wilbert Mukori

We all welcome praise but not from every quarter because praise from certain quarters is but a curse. Here is a typical example of praise from the wrong quarter.

“President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inauguration speech was in a class of its own in terms of vision, strategy and content,” started an article from Dr Gideon Gono.

Nonsense! President Mnangagwa’s inauguration speech was one of the worse speeches in human history it lacked any cohesion and was full of contradiction. With Zimbabwe in total economic meltdown with unemployment a nauseating 90% and 72.3% of the people living on US$ 1.00 or less per day; even he could not deny the country was in a mess due to “errors of commission or omission”.

“I implore you all to declare that NEVER AGAIN should the circumstances that have put Zimbabwe in an unfavourable position be allowed to recur or overshadow its prospects. We must work together, you, me, all of us who make up this Nation,” said Mnangagwa, in a determined effort to break from the past.

“This is a formidable head-start we draw from our past, a plinth upon which to build developments in the present and to erect hopes for the future,” he continued, clearly being dragged back into the past as if by some invisible dark force.

“Fellow Zimbabweans, as we chart our way forward, we must accept that our challenges as a nation emanate in part from the manner in which we have managed our politics, both nationally and internationally, leading to circumstances in which our country has undeservedly been perceived or classified as a pariah State.” The dark force had won.

Of course, Zimbabwe is a pariah State ruled by incompetent, corrupt, vote rigging and murderous thugs whose greed for absolute power and the influence and wealth it brings is insatiable. All President Mnangagwa has done so far is pay lip service to “democracy” and “new era” but failed has failed to do anything to show his willingness to implement the democratic reforms.

Former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, among other International leaders, reminded President Mnangagwa of the need to ensure next year’s elections are free, fair and credible. They can see that Zanu PF has changed its figure head but otherwise nothing else has changed. They are concerned it is business as usual with the pariah State!

President Mnangagwa’s recent cabinet appointments is full of individuals who believe that those who fought in the liberation war are the only one fit to rule Zimbabwe, hence the reason why they have a veto whilst the rest of us have a vote! The cabinet is now dominated by the individuals who have been central to the establishment and retaining of the de facto one-party state dictatorship that has ridden roughshod over the people’s freedoms and basic human rights including the right to free and fair election and even the right to life itself.

The right, not privilege, of every citizen to a meaningful say in the governance of the country is at the very heart of good governance because it is the only effective way of holding the governing accountable to the governed. If the ruled cannot dismiss, which is what a meaningful vote does, the rulers then what else is there to stop the latter doing as they please?

The root cause of Zimbabwe’s seemingly intractable political chaos and economic meltdown can all be trace back to the nation’s failure to reform Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs from office even when the nation had the overwhelming evidence the regime was corrupt, incompetent and oppressive. The greatest “error of commission and omission” Zimbabwe has made repeatedly in the last 37 years was its failure to hold free, fair and credible elections.

Zimbabwe will accomplish nothing, I repeat, nothing of any substance until we hold free and fair elections and end this foolishness of those in power rigging elections to extend their stay in power.

There is nothing in President Mnangagwa’s speech or actions since his swearing in that would make anyone believe he going to embrace democratic change. Only an idiot can see vision where there is no such thing!

“The President showed a clear, firm grasp of economics with his dose of what I would call "EDNomics", proudly showing the world that here is a new Zimbabwe that is ready and open for business,” continue Dr Gideon Gono.

What “new Zimbabwe” is he wittering about? No one with even half a brain would be fooled into believe Zimbabwe has lost its pariah state status just by removing one dictator and replacing him with another. The real world works on well-established and understood economic principles grounded on political stability and not the usual voodoo economics formulated by same corrupt and incompetent political thugs of yesterday.

“I particularly liked the Dengism philosophy which he merged with his appeal to investors to come from all corners of the world,” came the EDNomic explaination .

“Now that is pragmatism in the mould of China's former leader, Deng Xiaoping, who upon assuming leadership of China in the 1970s declared: "I do not care the colour of the cat, black or white … so long as it catches mice!"

“China's illustrious growth today owes its genesis and greatness to that statement.

“I was particularly pleased, too, that the President mentioned special economic zones, promising to accelerate their establishment countrywide "in order to attract investment and generate increased exports, jobs and stimulate economic growth".

“That statement alone, together with everything else he said, will get this economy flying to double digit growth rates with potential to propel this country to the levels of the likes of Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Korea and others in a very short space of time given our natural resources and literacy levels.”

Somethings never change! Mugabe appointed Gono the Czar of Zimbabwe’s economic zones, part of the regime’s ZimAsset policy which was supposed to create 2.2 million new jobs but only created two jobs for Mugabe’s daughter and her husband. The Zanu PF’s corrupt and incompetent fat cats have not caught any mice for 37 years and they are not going to catch any.

Talk of Zanu PF’s corrupt and incompetent fat cats, Gideon Gono is one of the heavy weights. Gono will be remembered as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor who presided over the country money printing crazy fuelling inflation to 500 billion per cent. Gono and his Zanu PF ruling elite made huge fortunes but at the cost of bankrupting the nation. Gonomics!

“What I'm saying is that it is not just the economic issues that I and many others listened to, but also, the political and social dimensions of the President's speech,” continued the shameless cannery singing for its supper.

“I'm sure even President Mugabe himself must have been very proud of his mentee and successor regardless of the circumstances. I know he was.

“I particularly like the new President's brand of EDNomics, EDPolitics and EDPlomacy.

Take it ease of the sauce governor; President Mnangagwa knows Mugabe appointed you Czar of the Special Economic Zones and you are desperate to hold on to your post.

Singapore, South Korea, etc. have all prospered because the hold free, fair and credible elections which have forced each successive government to produce sound economic policies. Zimbabwe has the potential to be as prosperous as Singapore but has, instead, sunk to the bottom. We are the poorest nation on earth! All because we are stuck with this Zanu PF regime with its voodoo Gonomics  or EDNomics for 37 years.


If Zimbabwe fails to hold free, fair and credible elections next year; this is a certainty, given the elections will be held with not even one democratic reform in place; the country will still be a pariah State. A pariah Zimbabwe pursuing the same Gonomics renamed EDNomics of the last 37 years will not deliver the economic recovery the nation is dying for. Never!

10 comments:

Patrick said...

“We have no time to meet sell-outs, mapuruvheya…clearly Tsvangirai is a psychiatric patient who needs a competent psychiatrist,” said General Chiwenga in 2013.

“There is nothing like that, we never met Tsvangirai, Giles Mutsekwa or anyone from the MDC-T. Why would we do that? We have no time for sell-outs. It’s a figment of his imagination that he met us. I think he was dreaming and that dream should remain a dream and never be reality because we have better things to do than to meet with sell-outs. It’s just not possible for me to entertain the MDC-T leader, we are different. Just like oil and water, we cannot mix.

“As the defence forces we will not respect or entertain people who do not value the ideals of the liberation struggle. Meeting such people will be a mockery to the thousands of people who sacrificed their lives fighting for the country’s independence. Who the hell does Tsvangirai think he is?

“No one can make us turn our back on the ideals of the liberation struggle. Thousands of people died for this country and you cannot change that nor wish it away. This country was liberated courtesy of a protracted struggle, some of us we carry severe scars from that struggle and its unimaginable of us to spit on that struggle through meeting sell outs. Its either you say yes or no, I do not have time to talk to Tsvangirai who seems to be suffering from hallucinations.

“I and fellow ZDF generals are not missionaries and will never meet with Tsvangirai”.

The real tragedy here is we have people like General Chiwenga who have worked with Mugabe to deny the people their basic freedoms and human rights to create and impose the one-party dictatorship that has caused so much human misery now claiming to be the bastions of revolution and all it stood for.

“As the defence forces we will not respect or entertain people who do not value the ideals of the liberation struggle,” General Chiwenga insist.

Nonsense! The liberation struggle was about freedom, human rights, one-man-one-vote, a fair share of the nation’s wealth, etc. for all Zimbabweans and not the select few who carried the AK47 and their cronies! 37 years after independence with a mountain of evidence that the Zanu PF dictatorship has completely failed as it has the national economy in ruins with 90% out of work, 72.3% living in abject poverty and the number set to rise unless something is done to end this criminal waste of human and material resources. Proof, if any was still required, that the dictatorship has completely failed. It is disheartening that those who have betrayed the people and the revolution should still consider themselves liberation heroes, bastions of the liberation struggle and champions of the ordinary people.

General Chiwenga, President Mnangagwa’s special advisor Chris Mutsvangwa, President Mnangagwa and all the other in the Zanu PF dictatorship; you cannot pretend to represent the people and yet deny the same people the basic human right to freely endorse you as their chosen leaders in a free, fair and credible election. We want free and fair elections and not your excuses!

Patrick said...

People like Pastor Mawarire are naive not to see the political reality, even now with the benefit of hindsight, that war veterans and the Army wanted the people's support tp help them push out Mugabe but would not want any more changes after that.

“Leave our President alone. Give him a chance. He means well for Zimbabwe and the people of Zimbabwe are solidly behind him. Please do not try him before he has even started. Don’t condemn him before he has even started,” pleaded the passionate Mutsvangwa.

“I am saying this because all the papers have started attacking the new President. He is being judged in 37 hours more than someone who has been in power for 37 years.”

Zanu PF is not interested in any meaningful political changes.

So by supporting the coup we, the people have forfeited our right to demand democratic reforms and free and fair elections as far as the Zanu PF dictatorship is concerned. What is there to celebrate in that?

Some people argued that the povo should not join the 18 November 2017 march and time has proven them right. I wish people like Mawarire should stop to think once in a while instead of always acting on impulse. We are in this political mess because many people failed to think through before giving their vote to Zanu PF and then to MDC; we are not going to get out of this mess unless we stop this foolishness of acting in a hurry and regretting at leisure!

Patrick said...

@Sarah Mahoka
The regime told us the US$ and the bond notes will be on par when the launched the latter and so it has failed to keep its promise. So what are you celebrating?

There are some things even Mugabe got right especially in the 1980s but that did not stop the country sinking into the economic and political mess it is in today, And until the day Mugabe was finally forced to resign there were paid agents on this site singing the dictator's praises. I notice you have never said they have eaten humble pie.

President Mnangagwa is now the new paymaster for the Zanu PF apologist and it is to be expected they are all tripping over one another to praise Mnangagwa.

Will ED deliver free and fair elections or will he rig elections as he has always done in the past? The real taste is for him to deliver free and fair elections. Making sure that some of the billions of looted SU$ are available in the ATM to buy votes is simply not good enough.

Patrick said...

Following the inauguration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week, traditional leaders have shifted their stance against perceived members of opposition parties.

Traditional leaders here concurred that proof of residence letters would be issued to villagers regardless of political background.

The very fact that this has been happening up to now is cause for concern. So what else has been happening and will continue to happen? The Chiefs are going to receive their twin cab Isuzu trucks from Zanu PF on the clear understanding that they will campaign for the party, it is naïve to think they will not do so now.

Zanu PF should implement the raft of democratic reforms to guarantee free and fair elections; this is a right and not a privilege to be granted to some and denied others at the whim of some traditional or national dictator.

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Victoria Musati

“Let us give him a chance!” This is the foolish nonsense tyrants the world over thrive on. I have made is crystal clear in my article that we want democratic reforms to restore our basic human freedoms and human rights including the right to free and fair elections and the right to life.

President Mnangagwa is a corrupt, vote rigging and murderous tyrant who has worked hand-in-glove with Mugabe and the rest in the Zanu PF dictatorship to systematically deny us, ordinary people, our freedoms and human rights to create and retain the de facto one party dictatorship. We demand the implementation of the democratic reforms design to restore our freedoms and human rights.

If it was Mugabe and Mugabe alone who denied us our freedoms and human rights and Mnangagwa and the rest in the Zanu PD cabal had never agreed with Mugabe’s actions then why has Mnangagwa announce straight away in his inauguration speech that he is going to implement all the democratic reforms.

What are you asking us to wait for exactly? To wait until next year’s elections to see if they are free and fair? We can see that already!

President Mnangagwa has avoided mention democratic reforms because he does not want to implement any. He has retained the obnoxious system of appointing a Minister of Information cum Propaganda whose principle task is to stifle freedom of expression and squeeze out a free media, etc.

Zanu PF, and President Mnangagwa, has been a key player throughout, has denied us our freedoms, human rights, hope and human dignity for 37 years and we are not going to allow this madness to continue. We are not going to let Mnangagwa add a few more years to our misery. There is no excuse why he did not implementing the reforms yesterday so why wait and waste another day?

Zimbabwe Light said...

Many of the individuals in President Mnangagwa's cabinet are and have been very active members of the Joint Operation Command, the shadowy Junta that has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist all these past decades.

"He can appoint them as VPs anyway if he wants without any legal issues. By the way Chiwenga and Sibanda also meet the Zanu-PF equation for VPs as they represent Zipra and Zanla as well as the Ndebele-Shona balance the party has always done for VPs.

"They can't let others eat from their coup sweat. Mnangagwa's Cabinet showed us that it was prize-giving season for the boys involved in a coup that include war vets, military and other Lacoste members.

"Chiwenga and Sibanda can't lead a coup to let others eat or for them to remain stagnant. Chiwenga and Sibanda VPs is a possibility," opined Saungweme.

Saungweme’s arguments make a lot of sense.

Chiwenga called the coup that forced Mugabe to resign “Operation Restore Legacy”. He did not say what this legacy was but clearly it had everything to do with stopping Mugabe passing the presidency to his wife and her G40 faction. So, the legacy was power. The coup was about restoring political power to the rightful owners and no one else has exercised real political power in Zimbabwe than the Junta cum Mafia cum Freemason members of JOC. After decades of doing the Zanu PF dictatorship’s back stage dirty work, the Grandmasters want to finally emerge into the limelight and secure their own position in history and have everyone saluting them for a change!

Zimbabwe Light said...

When the country became independent in 1980 many of us, myself included were cock sure Mugabe would deliver on his promise of guts ruzhinji it is fair to say many of us have eaten more than humble pie. I think being one of the 90% out of work or the 72.3% living on US$ 1.00 or less per day is a lot worse than eating humble pie. After all many of these people are facing a life and death situation.

What I have learnt from the foolishness of the last 37 years is that we the people must reclaim our democratic right to remove from office failed leaders. We would have never got this deep into the mess we are in today if we were able to remove Mugabe and his corrupt and tyrannical regime from office. The drive here is not some much to remove Mugabe but more significantly to end the political system that allowed Mugabe to stay in power regardless of our democratic wish.

ED has done nothing to make me believe he is going to implement the democratic reforms and that, right now, is my main concern. It should be your main concern too but I accept that it is not all of us who have eye to see who perceive and ear to hear who understand. You, my dear, have clearly failed to perceive and understand the single most important lesson of the last 37 years i.e. we must not allow ourselves ever again to be stuck with a corrupt and murderous tyrant. The solution is to dismantle the dictatorship a.s.a.p. which is what I am calling for.

"Already we are seeing the bond note gain strength from 1 SD = 1.9 bond to 1USD= 1.3 Bond," you say.

If that is indeed true then well and good. But that is not going to take away my focus on getting the democratic reforms implemented. I want o make sure that if the Bond Notes should ever fall in value and the nation have lost confidence in ED the people can vote him out. The lesson of 2008 was clear enough the value of Z$ fall through with inflation soaring to 500 billion per cent and still the people could not vote Mugabe out! (There is no point in asking you if you ate humble pie then because we all did, including you Mugabe apologists!)

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ zvachapera

Could not agree with you more. The one thing Mnangagwa is not cleaning up is implementing the democratic reforms to stop him rigging the elections and stay in power. 

"Zanu PF ichatonga! Igotonga!" (Zanu PF will rule! And rule!) He has often boasted. 

Like Mugabe all Mnangagwa cares about is that he stays in power at all cost. Our top priority as a nation right now is to make sure we change our political system to ensure there are free, fair and credible elections, our only guarantee that no one will ever defy the democratic will on the people and stay in power for even one day longer than the people have allowed him to. 

Until we sort out the political mess of rigging elections this country will never get out of the political and economic mess we are in today. Implementing the democratic reforms to dismantle the corrupt and oppressive dictatorship is the holy grail the people of Zimbabwe should focus all our time, energy and every penny on.

Sadly, there are some people like Sarah here who attention is easily drawn from the real big issue of our time to look at trivial matters. The Bond Notes have gain value from US$1.9 to 1.3 and already she is ready to declare Mnangagwa a saint forgetting all the looting, vote rigging and the thousands of innocent blood the tyrant has shed! Such is the foolishness of simpleton like her!

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Sarah

Mnangagwa's 37 years in government is there for all of us to see, the man is incompetent, corrupt, expert at vote rigging and a ruthless murderer. Only a first class idiot would fail to see that the nation will never prosper under his leadership. The people of Zimbabwe will never elect him into power in a free and fair elections and hence the reason why he will never agree to implement the democratic reforms.

He will have to be forced to implement the reforms and that is exactly what this is all about - force him to accept the implementation of all the reforms.

The right to free and fair elections is sacrosanct, it is not a privilege Mugabe, Mnangagwa or anyone can give to some and deny to others!

You, Sarah just keep watch you pretty eyes on Bond Notes, leave the democratic reforms to those with the intellect to understand what is at stake!

Zimbabwe Light said...

Professor Jonathan Moyo is a very cunning man something he shared with Robert Mugabe. The two's greed for absolute power was insatiable and it is no surprise that they have dragged the nation into the depths of hell just to stay in power. There is some justice in that both Moyo and Mugabe have both been booted out of office, I hope the nation will carry out a thorough investigation in the lives of these two monsters and their evil deeds laid bear for history to know!