MUGABE HOBNOBBING WITH IRANIANS: CONFIRMS HE HAS NOT CHANGED AND SEALS ZIMBABWE'S DOOMED FUTURES!

Zimbabwe should not be “hobnobbing with dubious political leaders” like the President of Iran.

Zimbabwe is in deep, deep economic and political trouble. The Zimbabwe economy has all but collapsed unemployment has improved from 95% in 2008 to 80% under the GNU but clearly that is nothing to write home about. Schools and hospitals that had completely closed are just trying to get back on their feet, thanks largely to the help from donors countries.

But after a whole of bickering and stagnation on the part of the GNU, outsiders who had been willing to help in Zimbabwe’s economic recovery are giving up. Only last week Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister, Tendai Biti, said he only received $ 2.9 million out of the expected $800 million assistance. Outsiders are disappointed in the GNU’s failure to demonstrate it can competently manage the nation’s affairs and carry out the necessary economic and political reforms. It has been business as usual for Mugabe, the GNU has changed nothing.

It must be stated here that root cause of Zimbabwe melt down is not just the years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption by Mugabe. That the nation would have dealt with a long, long time ago if the people had had the right to vote those responsible out of power.

Mugabe has murdered thousands of innocent Zimbabweans in his thirty years iron grip on power. Mugabe and his propagandists have worked to portray Zimbabwe’s economic and political problems as being caused by the British and the West; punishment for his “principled stance,” he claims, on land redistribution and now the indigenous law. In the last ten years, he has not missed a chance to poke a finger into the British’s eyes; much to the bemusement of outsiders. That has not changed anything, as far as the people of Zimbabwe particularly are concerned; Mugabe’s real fight is with the Zimbabwean people whom he has denied freedom, hope and a future.

Zimbabwe should associate with those nations that can and will help the country move out of this economic and political mess. Iran does not have the economic muscle to help Zimbabwe in any meaningful way. On the political front President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will only be offering the Zimbabwe dictator more weapons for him to use in repression.
This visit by the Iranians will only confirm to all that Zimbabwe is not interested in carrying out any economic and political reforms that got us into this mess in the first place. So for Zimbabwe, things are set to get worse not better in the next foreseeable future.