Zimbabwe's economic meltdown is getting worse and worse by the day!
Zimbabwe's nurses announced that their poor wages will only allow them to work two days a week. A few days latter the teachers said they will cut their working week to three days a week for the same reason. Now we hear University lecturers are doing the same too.
"University lecturers have announced that they will be embarking on a go-slow after declaring incapacitation due to poor salaries which have largely been eroded by inflation and sky-rocketing prices, while school teachers will also join in the industrial action," reported Bulawayo 24.
"In separate notices to their universities, lecturers at Midlands State University (MSU) and the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) said their salaries were no longer enough to last a month."
Well, well! The more President Mnangagwa and his ministers pretend the economy is on track to recovery and the regime is control, the more evidence there is that things are falling apart and the regime has no clue what to do.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs, there will be no meaningful economic recovery. Indeed, the country’s economic meltdown will only get worse. By blatantly rigging last year's elections Zanu PF confirmed that the country was still a pariah state contrary to all the party's "new dispensation, Second Republic," etc. claims.
Zimbabwe found itself with an illegitimate government following the blatant cheating and wanton violence by Zanu PF in the 2008 elections. Zanu PF was allowed a soft-landing and allowed to form a GNU which was tasked to implement the democratic reform to ensure the cheating and violence are not repeated ever again. Sadly the GNU failed to get even one meaningful reform implemented.
Zanu PF rigged last year's elections, the regime is illegitimate and, this time the regime must step down to allow the appointment of a new body to be tasked with implementing the reforms. Zanu PF will not be allowed to play any part in the new body; there will not be no soft-landing for Zanu PF. The regime must step down, period!
It is a great tragedy that Nelson Chamisa and his MDC A have elected to give the rigged elections some modicum of credibility by participating in the flawed and illegal elections and then by accepting the election process as having been free. fair and credible. MDC A has challenged the individual result of the parliamentary and presidential result which is not the same thing as challenging the process itself.
MDC A have withheld accepting Mnangagwa as the legitimate president for the purpose of forcing Zanu PF to concede to another power sharing arrangement, another GNU or be it one in which MDC A members have even less power than the 2008 GNU. If the 2008 GNU failed to implement even one meaningful reforms it is naive to expect this new one to do any better.
Mnangagwa will know that MDC leaders will participate in future elections regardless how flawed and illegal process happen to be, just as they have done last year and in the past. Zanu PF will be under no pressure to implement the reforms and, therefore, implement a few token but meaningless reforms at best.
Adding Chamisa, Biti and one or two other MDC A leaders to the Zanu PF cabinet will not change the pariah state nature of regime. Mnangagwa added ministers like Professor Mthuli Ncube and Kirsty Coventry to his cabinet in the hope of getting the same change and, as we can see, that did not work.
If MDC A and the rest of Zimbabwe's opportunist opposition camp had joined everyone else including the EU, the Americans, the Commonwealth and the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans in condemning last year's flawed elections and declaring the Zanu PF regime illegitimate (not just Mnangagwa as MDC A has done). Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta would have been left in no doubt that the regime must step down and would have, hopefully, done so by now, 8 months since the rigged elections. As it is Zanu PF is hanging on dragging the nation deeper and deeper into economic despair.
The sick need health care round the clock every day, seven days a week. Nurses working two days a week will only mean the sick will suffer and many will die unnecessarily! This situation cannot be allowed to go on; the cup is full to overflowing. The only solution is for this illegitimate Zanu PF regime to step down and it must do so now without further ado!
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The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission powers should be strengthened to enable the organisation to adequately fight the scourge of corruption in the country. This was said by prospective commissioners during interviews carried out by the Parliament's Standing Rules and Orders Committee yesterday.
The interviews are being carried out to replace the old ZACC that was fired by President Mnangagwa early this year.
In his remarks during the interview Mr Gabriel Chaibva said there was need to harmonise laws dealing with corruption to plug loopholes
This is just a stupid argument! Who is going to strengthen the powers of ZACC – the very people in power for whom corruption is a very profitable business! Chaibva and the other prospective ZACC applicants are just looking for a well-paid job and know they will have their hands tied to do anything to end corruption.
The only sure way for Zimbabwe to end corruption, together with all the other teething problems in the country, is for the country to implement the democratic reforms to end vote rigging. Until we have leaders who are democratically elected by the people and are accountable to the people there will be no end to corruption!
FORMER police Commissioner-General, Augustine Chihuri, allegedly stole the number plates of a broken down Mercedes Benz belonging to the Zimbabwe Republic Police which he used to fraudulently get the State to service his own vehicles, a court heard.
Chihuri's alleged shenanigans were revealed by Detective Assistant Inspector Thomas Mabgwe while testifying in a matter in which a former police officer Senior Assistant Commissioner, Robert Tendero Masukusa (47), is facing charges of using State funds to repair his personal car.
Prosecutor, Francesca Mukumbiri, alleges that Masukusa used more than US$7 000 after he took his car for servicing at Isoquant Investments Trading as Zimoco under the guise that the car belonged to the ZRP. It is alleged that he committed the offence between 2015 and 2016. According to the State, Masukusa bought the car, an ML 320 Mercedes Benz, at an auction carried out on behalf of ZRP by KM Auctions on January 17, 2015. Masukusa reportedly deceived Zimoco by claiming his vehicle belonged to the police.
The drip, drip has started and there is no stopping it! Chawakadya chamuka Chihuru iweeee!
Jonathan Moyo is claiming that he bought the farm for Z$ 6 million in 2001.. No doubt the movable asset alone were worth a lot more than Z$ 6 million! So the true value of the farm was a lot more than the Z$6 million he paid.
Interestingly enough Zanu PF is asking the taxpayer to compensate the white farmers for the movable assets people like Jonathan Moyo got for a song and yet those who profited from the whole criminal deal are there and are being allowed to keep their loot or, in this case, are reportedly fighting to keep their loot.
The land issue is one of the many issues that must be addressed and it in nonsense to expect Zanu PF to do this!
Mnangagwa has clearly failed to square the circle of nurses working 2 day a week when the sick require 24/7 attention. Millions of Zimbabweans are suffering unnecessarily and hundreds if not thousands are going to die unnecessarily every month. Yes the cup is full and overflowing and it is irresponsible of the people of Zimbabwe to let this inhuman madness to continue even for one more day.
The economic situation in Zimbabwe has reach a state in which one condemns those in positions of power and authority for letting this happen but also condemns the ordinary people for doing nothing to stop the madness.
Nations get the government they deserve; we in Zimbabwe certainly deserve this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship complete with its entourage of corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless opposition parties!
Of course, I am ashamed to be Zimbabwean; if you are not then you have no clue what is happening. Blessed are the stupid for the are blissfully happily unaware of the mess they are in because of their own stupidity!
It is heartbreaking that the nation's education and health care, for example, all collapsed years ago. The collapse was propelled by the double wharmy of shrinking economy due to mismanagement and corruption and the ruling elite who siphoned the remaining resources to bankroll their passion to seek education and health services outside the country.
The situation is so bad that even big hospitals like Harare and Mpilo have regularly run out of basic things like pain killers and bandages. District Hospitals like Chegutu have left dead bodies in their bed in the ward for up to three days because the Hospital's mortuary was out of service! Many of our people are suffering and dying of simple and curable illnesses!
It is an outrage that we have allowed the situation to get to this sorry, sorry state! But clearly that is not bad enough for great thinkers like Dr Pedzisai Ruhanya, he is waiting for the moment when everything has "completely failed" before he wakes up! With thinkers like him it is little wonder Zimbabwe is a failed state and tyrants' paradise!
The President and all those in attendance understood the position of the nurses and gave an undertaking that salaries were going to be reviewed. More specifically, the undertaking was that salaries were going to be reviewed upwards from the 1st of July 2019.
This is just kicking the tin can down the road. In January nurses’ wages X Bond Notes, whatever it was, was equivalent to US$ X at 1:1 exchange rate. Today the exchange rate has soared to 12:1 in response to the soaring inflation now at 100%.
So, short of granting the nurses a 1200% wage increase, they will be worse off than they were in January! The wage increase will only fuel inflation, the greater the increase the bigger the inflation rate jump. But even if inflation remained at 100% this will result in the prices of goods and services doubling every 21 days, according to some economist. Will government double the nurses’ wages every month?
The only way out of this seemingly economic vicious cycle is for the nation to end the criminal waste of the nation’s human and material resources through mismanagement and corruption and to kick-start economic recovery by restoring investor confidence in the country. The only way to achieve these objectives is to implement the democratic reforms necessary to end the curse of rigged elections and pariah state.
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF thugs are determined to retain their iron grip on power and they think they can deliver economic recovery without dismantle the dictatorship. After 39 years of trying and dragging the nation deeper and deeper into economic despair it for us, the people, to stand up and say enough is enough.
ZEC cleaning up voters' roll!
Whereas other nation up date their voters' roll, Zimbabwe needs to "clean up" because it is none other than ZEC itself that has seen to it that there is no clean voters' roll. As long as Zanu PF remains in power Zimbabwe will never ever have a clean ad verified voters' roll.
@ Succub
Only the naive and gullible will believe ZEC is cleaning up the voters' roll even now! If Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF thugs were to discover this was for real everyone at ZEC would be fired on the spot!
This is an illegitimate regime that rigged last year's elections and now finds it cannot rig economic recovery and so is resorting to the use of violence to silence the restless populous! The economic situation is so bad that it is impossible to expect the people to continue suffering and dying quietly like sheep.
Zanu PF can deploy the Army and shoot to kill as happened on 1 st August 2018 and again in January this year but that will not stop the people demanding change. Change is now as certain as the sun rising tomorrow!
@ Rodzi
From the onset, Chamisa has emphasised, on every occasion, that the future of the party and Zimbabwe is the youth. With the new appointments, there is no doubt that the generational shift seem to be conclusive: MDC-A is now firmly in the hands of former Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) and NGO activists, and Chamisa is secure.
Chamisa is desperate to present MDC A as a new and competent party just as Mnangagwa did with Zanu PF after the November 2017 coup. The truth is both MDC and Zanu PF have not changed since they are still led by the same corrupt and incompetent individuals being recycles and presented as new.
Chamisa selected his team on the basis of youth, we are told, just as Tsvangirai and Mugabe before him selected their team on the basis of liberation war record, tribe, region, etc. Zimbabwe will never have a competent government until those in leadership position rise above these trivial personal considerations and focus on merit and ideas.
MDC A Youth leader, Sithole reiterated President Nelson Chamisa’s message that Emmerson Mnangagwa is not the legitimate leader of Zimbabwe.
He said the court of public opinion is the biggest court in Zimbabwe and not the Constitutional Court which installed Mnangagwa as President after a disputed presidential election result.
Sithole, if you want the public and the world at large to listen to you then you must respect them by telling the truth. The “court of public opinion”, as you called, position is very clear – last July’s elections were a farce.
“The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner,” said the EU Zimbabwe Election Observer Mission final report.
“The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability. Finally, the restrictions on political freedoms, the excessive use of force by security forces and abuses of human rights in the post-election period undermined the corresponding positive aspects during the pre-election campaign. As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards.”
An election process with no verified voters’ roll, which is not transparent and failed to meet international standards is per se null and void and can never ever produce a legally recognized result.
Chamisa’s position is a nonsensical one, he accepts the elections as having been free, fair and credible as far as the parliamentary goes because MDC A won a few gravy seats in parliament. He will accept the presidential race too was free, fair and credible but only if he is declared the winner even though he, just like Mnangagwa, cannot produce the key supporting documents such as a verified voters’ roll, all the V11 forms (summary of vote count at each polling station), etc.
Chamisa knows that last July’s elections were rigged but will endorse the elections as free and fair if Mnangagwa gave him a gravy train seat in the proposed Transition Authority. In short, he is selling out!
The nation and the world at large declared the Zanu PF regime illegitimate and the logical position was that the regime must step down. This has not happened because MDC A, together with the rest of the opposition parties and candidates who participated in last year’s elections, have mudded the water by participating and then endorsing the elections as being free and fair.
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