“Well, this is not a pie in the sky. What is our attitude to Mthuli Ncube's Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP)? A lot of us really want us to go back to the hiatus,” is the latest diatribe from The Herald.
“The economy is hitting us hard and we no longer want to go forward. We are now doubting the essence of his reform. But we need the reforms. We are at breaking point, we are doubting his vision.
“Like Moses, is Mthuli being given a chance?
Hell no!”
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because we have become a nation of brainwashed sloths, happy following leaders blindly no questions asked. Even when presented with a mountain of evidence the leaders are corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs we have again and again chosen to ignore the evidence and argue we must give them another chance.
After 39 years of death and destruction under this ruinous Zanu PF dictatorship there are people out there who still expect the dictatorship to deliver economic prosperity, justice and freedom.
The moral of the story of the Children of Israel’s perilous journey to the Promised Land is that in this world we mortals, even God’s chosen people, have to fight our way to the Promised Land and when we get there have to fight for every inch of it! Those who have never lifted a finger to fight for their freedoms and basic human rights have blundered from slavery, to colonial exploitation, to corrupt and tyrannical rule under their own kith and kin, etc.
Minister Mthuli Ncube has imposed 2% transaction tax aimed at squeezing a few dollars from the poorest of the poor because they were not paying income tax as they are unemployed. He has done nothing to tax the ruling elite’s millions of dollars every month from corruption and the wholesale looting.
In 2016 Mugabe admitted the country was being swindled out of US$15 billion in diamond revenue alone. We all know that not even one diamond swindler has ever been arrested and not a penny of the loot recovered. Worse still, we know the looting is still taking place to this day. Former Finance Minister, Patrick Chinamasa, told parliament in 2017 that government was getting 1/6 of the expected diamond revenue.
Of course, Minister Ncube is aware of the looting and has deliberately targeted the poor to pay for the ruling elite’s extravagant lifestyles. Only a first class village idiot would believe this voodoo economic will end Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown much less turn the country into the “Vision 2030 Upper Middle Income” he keeps wittering about.
“They would rather Zimbabwe does not talk to EU or EU does not talk to Zimbabwe. The stalemate, which has worked wonders for the opposition in the form of biting sanctions, hard presses the ordinary citizens and aptly pits the citizenry against Government. They make the Government unpopular and readies people for regime change,” we are told.
The EU knows that Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year’s elections and if this had happed in any of the EU member countries the regime would have been booted out before sunset. The only reason the EU is re-engaging the illegitimate regime is because there are EU member countries like Belgium who have been desperate to join countries like China, India, Russia, Israel, etc. who have been looting Zimbabwe’s diamonds.
Again only a village idiot would believe Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is cause by sanction when US$15 billion are being swindled away under their nose. They form in the mouth agitated about US foreign policy, sanctions, over which they have no say but have never said a word of protest over the rot, corruption, in their own country over which they have a duty to stamp out!
The greatest disservice Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs have ever inflicted on this nation is not the criminal waste of the nation's human and material resources or even the many murdered in cold blood - heinous and barbaric as these are. The greatest disservice the regime has inflicted on the nation was to retain the colonial laws and practices that had systematically denied the people the opportunity to open their minds and think for themselves.
Top on the list of democratic reforms the nation needs is the dismantling of the country's public media. We must banish government control of the media and fire the Zanu PF apologists masquerading as journalist in The Herald, ZBC, etc. We want our people to think for themselves and freed from all this brainwashing diatribe, mysticism and heresy!
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This is just the usual diatribe nonsense the nation has been force fed dating back to the colonial days!
Only a village idiot would believe Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is cause by sanction when US$15 billion are being swindled away under their nose. They form in the mouth agitated about US foreign policy, sanctions, over which they have no say but have never said a word of protest over the rot, corruption, in their own country over which they have a duty to stamp out!
Mthuli Ncube has been taxing the poorest of the poor with his 2% transaction tax and yet has not taxed the millions looted by the filthy rich ruling elite much less done anything to stop the looting. This is just voodoo economic that is only going to drag this nation even deeper into this hell-on-earth we find ourselves stuck in.
"The situation has moved yet to another level!" says Chamisa.
Sorry, this is smacking on one so desperate to grab the headlines he is making a mountain out of a mole hill. If there is something going on then Chamisa should just come out and say what it is and not expect the nation to take his word for it from a posted photo. This is fake news at its most idiotic level!
The Zimbabwe Independent has reported that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government through the Zimbabwe Republic Police have purchased weapons which include 3 343 AK-47 assault rifles and about 600 sniper rifles so that they are able to crush anticipated protestors who might take to the streets to show their displeasure at how the country is being run.
The nation is marching deeper and deeper into the hell-on-earth Zanu PF frog marched the nation into these last 39 years. We had the chance to dismantle the dictatorship during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and we wasted it. We failed to implement even one reform in five years and now we are regretting it!
Quite clearly, the so-called "Second Republic" has failed to live up to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's hype regarding a new political culture, proving the government's unwillingness to re-join the family of nations by upholding democratic tenets such as respect for human rights and allowing workers their right to demonstrate.
The government should simply sort out its political mess if it ever wants to deliver the economic salvation the majority of citizens are desperate for. Abducting, threatening or arresting outspoken people is not going to help its cause, both at home and abroad. It is really strange, but not surprising, that such horrendous acts on Masaraure would be carried out right at a time the government is engaging the European Union (EU) to try and curry favour with the powerful bloc after many years in the cold.
The ”Second Republic” was a myth to fool the naïve and gullible just as the November 2017 military coup was “a military assisted transition” to fool those foolishness to believe every nonsense they hear.
The EU knows that Zanu PF rigged last July’s elections and the regime is illegitimate and yet they are re-engaging it regardless for the sake of joining in the wholesale looting of the country’s resources. EU countries like Belgium want a share of the diamonds coming from Marange and Chiadzwa; they do not care that Zanu PF is illegitimate, is abducting its people and murdering others! The EU does not care about any of those things!
“The election of 2018 remains contested. The crisis of legitimacy remains at the fore of the crisis in Zimbabwe as I talk to you right now," Tendai Biti told his audience at Chaltam House the other day.
Contested by whom? Certainly not by the British, the EU, the Commonwealth, the Americans and everyone else who observed the elections and KNOW what constitutes free, fair and credible elections. It is MDC Alliance who cannot make up their minds on these elections. They have accepted the parliamentary results but refuse to accept the presidential because they want Zanu PF to share power!
The elections were rigged and the right position is for Zanu PF to step down. By dithering on the elections MDC A is giving Zanu PF some modicum of legitimacy!
Zanu PF rigged last year's elections, the regime has no mandate to govern and must step down. By rigging the elections the regime left the nation in this unconstitution position of having no legal government and the nation should have moved swiftly to appoint an interim administration to implement the reforms leading to the holding of free, fair and credible elections and get the nation out of the mess a.s.a.p.
Chamisa and his MDC A friends have accepted this half-way house of accepting the parliamentary result because some of them are MPs and Senators and would want to hang on to their seats. They are piling the pressure on Mnangagwa to form this interim authority in which Chamisa and a few of the other leaders hope to be get cabinet positions.
Chamisa has promised to get Zanu PF to implement the democratic reforms but that is all hot-air. MDC leaders failed to get even one reform implemented during the last GNU it is naive to expect them to do any better.
If Zanu PF is still in power, on its own or this new authority MDC A is calling for, till 2023 then we can be 100% certain the party will rig that year's elections. 100% certain of that!
@ Zviuya
"Sorry Wilbert, you are repeating yourself dozens of times in your articles on Zim. It's called tautology. We're getting bored with you."
Well that is true but you cannot deny that Zimbabwe is stuck. Indeed the country has been stuck with the same corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF regime for the last 39 years and stuck with the same corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders the last 19 years. Both Zanu PF and MDC have made the same stupid mistakes again and again.
The challenge for us all is how are we going to get out of this mess. If you stuck is a pool the way out is swim, for example. If you do not think that is not the way out then say so and offer suggestions. It is nonsense to reject swimming as a way out purely because you have heard it said "dozens of times". Will you accept flying out just because you have never had it suggested before?
If you were one of the millions of Zimbabweans out of work you would want Zanu PF to step down if that is going to get the country out of the mess and not another GNU when the last one failed to get even one reform implemented.
Professor Mthuli Ncube has made some breath taking blunders ever since his appointment as Minister of Finance. I agree that the taxing of the poorest of the poor, whom he should have on welfare, is one of the heartless things he has ever done. I am not an economist but I really do not believe that made any economic sense, especially when he has done nothing to end the wholesale looting.
Only someone in Herald House would comapre Mthuli Ncube to Moses! These Zanu PF apologists treat these Zanu PF leaders as if they are infalliable and no wonder the thugs themselves have often claimed themselves chosen by God to lead the nation. It is this conceited that has given birth to arrogance and murder.
Professor Mthuli Ncube is, just like Mnangagwa and all the other Zanu PF thugs, not accountable to the people of Zimbabwe and hence the reason he has pursued his policies with such careless indifference!
Zanu PF rigged last year's elections and regime is illegitimate but it is the MDC and the others opposition parties who have given it some modicum of legality by participating and endorsing the flawed elections.
The MDC is not calling for mass protest to push MDC's agenda for Zanu PF to form the transition authority (TA) in which Chamisa and a few other leaders are given gravy train seats. The TA will have no power or authority to implement any meaningful democratic reforms and will be just another excuse for Zanu PF to remain in power.
If Zanu PF is in power in 2023, the party will rig that year's elections, guaranteed. The only way to stop this is for Zanu PF to step down a,s,a.p. to allow the appointment of a interim administration that can be trusted to implement the reforms. This is not negotiable. The TA is selling out!
Comparing Mthuli Ncube with all his human faults and blunderings to Moses goes to show the sheer shallowness of some people! A nation of such shallow minded people is doomed to wallow in poverty and despair and we are!
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