When Emmerson Mnangagwa took over from Mugabe following the 15 November 2017 military coup he surprised everyone with half a brain with his “Zimbabwe is open for business!” clarion call. Within weeks of taking over he was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland with his team all dressed up in his trademark colourful scarf. He expected a flood gate of investors and international finance houses like IMF and WB to heed his call. They did not!
Mnangagwa thought he knew all the problems behind Zimbabwe’s international isolation during Mugabe days and was 100% certain the investors would believe that he had either addressed them or would do so shortly to restore their confidence in Zimbabwe as a safe country to do business with.
Mnangagwa promised to end corruption and to hold free, fair and credible elections, for example. Tall orders for anyone who knew that Zanu PF was a party of incompetent, corrupt and murderous thugs who would readily burn the whole country and murder millions than see someone else rule the country.
So many people were not at all surprised that Mnangagwa blatantly rigged the July 2018 elections and has since admitted to failing to end corruption. Corruption is “deep rooted”, he confessed.
Mnangagwa has since dropped the “Zimbabwe is open for business!” mantra but not the trademark colourful scarf. He has taken to blaming the targeted sanctions imposed by the West on some Zanu PF leaders for the country’s economic woes – Mugabe’s well-trodden ground.
In a recent interview with Joseph Madzimure of State Media Victor Matemadanda, Zanu PF newly appointed Secretary for the Commissariat, he is also the deputy minister of Defence and War Veterans’ Affairs, showed that he too has the gift of the gab and has no clue what he is wittering about.
“There is also the need to address the issues of corruption within and outside the party. We want to solve corruption. Everyone, be it in the Parliament or Government, we want things to be fair,” said Matemadanda.
“We must up the fight against corruption. Corruption should never be tolerated. If a leader is said to be corrupt, he/she should be given time to clean himself so that he will not be corrupt. There are means to find out if it is true or not that someone is corrupt. One should have a moral obligation that what I am doing is wrong and when they come to that realisation, they should be given time to clear themselves on issue of corruption so that they regain the people’s confidence. When we are defending a person, it must be systematic, it must not be like hypothesis, let it be proved factually that this person is not corrupt and that leader will be accepted.”
Well coming from the party’s chief propagandist and strategist it is safe to say corruption in not only deep rooted but, worse still, those pretending to uproot it are in fact doing their very best to make corrupt “fair”!
“We won’t …. We’ll make sure this will work, will not work. No, it will work. You will not work. Simple!” said VP Constantino Chiwenga, another Zanu PF leader with the gift of the gab but as brain-dead as they come.
With the nation’s destiny in the hands of people like Emmerson Mnangagwa, VP Chiwenga, deputy minister Matemadanda, etc. it is no wonder Zimbabwe is the poorest country in Africa, has the world’s highest hyperinflation rate, at 90% unemployment rate for over a decade it must be double world record, etc., etc. The nation has paid dearly in lost treasure, human suffering and lives for the privilege of being led by those with motor mouth but no intellect.
After 39 years of this Zanu PF madness, the country is in a serious economic mess and on the verge of political and economic instability. The question is: how long are we going to allow the braindead to ride rough shod over our freedoms, rights hopes and dreams?
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Blaming the West, the opposition and now add Robert Mugabe for the country's economic problems is not going to help end them; this is Zanu PF doing what it does best - burying its head in the sand.
Until this country force through the implementation of democratic reforms and end the curse of rigged elections; this country will continue to be ruled by men and women who have no clue what they are doing.
Matemadanda is just a typical Zanu PF big mouth, he talks too much but most of it is just rubbish!
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government continues to plead with the people for patience. The president keeps assuring citizens that the pain they are experiencing is but a passing phase; that the suffering is a result of deliberate, well-calculated austerity measures meant to yield long-term prosperity.
But as the austerity squeezes life out of the ordinary citizen with no sign of any good coming out of it, the people are beginning to doubt.
What deepens the people's distrust in this plan is the fact that it is only the ordinary man and woman for whom the austerity appears designed. The president and his colleagues in government, party and business are seen openly living in the lap of luxury.
Elsewhere at Parliament, another Mnangagwa ally, Mayor Justice Wadyajena, was showing off his new acquisition: a US$420 000 super car. Wadyajena has just taken delivery of the Lamborghini, which he imported recently.
Government's austerity measures are supposed to include strict control of the scarce foreign currency in the country. Many people have failed to access very little foreign currency needed for medical purposes while tobacco farmers complain they have been short-changed in agreements over forex payment for their produce.
Mnangagwa was cocksure his “Zimbabwe is open for business!” was going to bring in a flood of investors. He was so sure of the pending economic boom to the point of being cocky about it and yet he had done absolutely nothing to dismantle the Zanu PF corrupt and tyrannical regime other than replace the dictator and a few around him.
Mthuli Ncube’s taxes are aimed at squeezing the poor whilst the filthy rich have been left untouched. Anyone who thinks the national economy will ever recover when there is so much waste is naïve. Mnangagwa has no clue how to revive the Zimbabwe economy, he rigged the elections and now finds he cannot do the same with the economy. We are in deep trouble and the only way out is to force this Zanu PF regime to step down so we can implement the reforms to stop it rigging elections.
@ Nomazulu
Anyone of substance has condemn Robert Mugabe and his insatiable greed for absolute power which is the root cause of not just Gukurahundi massarce but all the political violence and economic chaos the country has suffered these last 39 years. The greatest tragedy for Zimbabwe would be for the country to finally end the Zanu PF dictatorship but only to be sucked into a new wave of political unrest or civil war.
Our people want peace and development, we can offer them peace and development , let us offer them peace and development.
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