Targeted sanctions must stay: Mugabe and his cronies will lose more than just their loot - off with their heads

Before the formation of the GNU the shops were empty and inflation was into 12 digit figures. MDC scrap the Z$ and thus putting Gideon Gono and his money printing business out of business and over night inflation disappeared like the mist in the morning sun. MDC lifted the price controls and food and other goods flooded back into the shop. These simple common sense changes changed things on the ground. Please note, ZDERA and all the other sanctions you and your master, Mugabe, never tire of blaming for Zimbabwe's economic problems were still there. Thus proving once again that Zimbabwe’s economic problems are a result of years of economic mismanagement and rampant corruption.

Mugabe and his cronies have disrupted Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector seizing every productive farm and then seating on the land. When they walked in, they saw the full grain barns and the healthy animals and thought all they had to do now was seat back and rack in the wealth. They never realised that they would have to work. As we say in Shona “Munda hauzvirimi!”

As much as 80% of the Zimbabwe population now rely on food aid. Before the farm seizure we produced enough to feed the nation with surplus for export. And you still believe it is the sanctions that have caused the food shortages?

The targeted sanctions were imposed on Mugabe and his ruling elite for one specific reason – the regime had failed to hold free and fair elections. The root cause of all Zimbabwe’s economic, social and political problems is Mugabe’s wanton denial of the Zimbabweans people their basic right to have a meaningful say in the governance of the country. If the people had a free vote they would have booted this repressive regime a long time ago.

The political repression started a long time ago. In the mid 1980s Mugabe murdered 20 000 people to consolidate his grip on power. Last year he turned the whole nation up side down and murdered 400 just to ensure the people voted for him.

It is Mugabe who has caused untold suffering on the people and no amount of propaganda can ever change that.

Of course, Mugabe and his cronies are very lucky to have Tsvangirai as the main challenger; he is a very naïve blundering “dithering idiot” as Professor Jonathan Moyo rightly said. Let me rest assure you, Fungayi, not all Zimbabweans are dithering idiots; Mugabe and all his cronies will account for what they have done.

Gideon Gono will be foolish to think that the “good intention” clause in the RBZ amendment bill will protect him from prosecution. How can anyone classify such outrageous acts as spending millions of donor aid moneys, not government money but donors’, meant for AIDS victims on plasma TV and other luxuries good intentions?

In late 1945 Adolf Hitler and his murderous Nazi knew they days are numbered but since they really had no way they tried to put on a brave face. Mugabe and his cronies are in exactly the same situation. I assure Mugabe and those in the know hold any hope of ever seeing all the money frozen in Western Bank accounts. Some, like you Fungayi do – dream on. The reality is Mugabe and his cronies will take everything their looted taken away from them and all with innocent blood on their hands will hang! Personally, I would like to see hanging taken off Zimbabwe’s statute book – but not so fast, understand!