The IMF has complained to the Mugabe at the regime’s
failure to honour its commitment NOT to recruit more public service workers.
The Zimbabwe government made the commitment in June 2012 as a way forward to
reduce public expenditure so it can start repaying the crippling $10 billion
foreign debt.
In 2008 to 2011 the Zimbabwe government had recruited 75
000 and last year, in violation of the commitment, the regime recruited another
10 000 bring the total to 85 000 since 2008. Most of the new recruits are in
the security sector, mainly the CIO.
To start with Zimbabwe has always had a blotted security
sector. At the very least, one third of the country's 210 000 public servants
in 2008, i.e. 70 000, were in the security sector. A sector whose top echelons
is full of staunch Mugabe and Zanu PF supporters. People like Police Commissioner
Augustine Chihuri, Army General Chiwenga, Air Marshal Perence Shiri, etc., etc.
all of whom have publicly said they will not accept any other government
other than a Mugabe/Zanu PF led government. In other words their allegiance is
to keep Mugabe and Zanu PF in power even if this is contrary to the democratic
wish of the electorate.
Second, the Zimbabwe economy is in serious trouble; it
shrunk a staggering 84% in the six year period 2002 to 2008 alone; a world
record for any nation not at war. As a rule the public sector does not
produce any wealth, worst of all the security sector. So with the national
economy in the doldrums it is the private sector, the wealth generating sector,
which should be growing to spur the much needed economic recovery and not
the public sector. Growing the public sector simply does not make any
economic sense!
Third and more significantly, why is Mugabe more than
doubled the size of the security sector, particularly the shadowy and ruthless
and feared CIOs? This was not just a stop-gap to help with the vote-rigging
because Mugabe has already awarded the Chinese a $ 200 million contract to
build a Spy-University. Mugabe is committed to turning Zimbabwe into a Police
State.
Key public services like health and education have all
but collapse due to years of underfunding and neglect but not so with the Army,
Police and CIO. Even at the height of the economic melt-down in 2008, Mugabe
continued to buy weapons from countries like China by the ship-load. Zimbabwe
will soon boast of having few teachers and even fewer medical doctors but
plenty of spies spying on what the people say and do round the clock.
Mugabe
is turning Zimbabwe into the North Korea of Africa. If Mugabe is allowed to
illegally stay in office; he rigged the July 2013 elections and is per se
illegitimate; then by 2018 when the next elections are due, it will be too late
to get him or Zanu PF out.
Those
who say the 2018 elections will be free and fair are not just naïve
but are showing the characteristic lazy-mind that landed the nation
into this mess! Mugabe is not going to implement any of the reforms,
including security sector reforms, that are a prerequisite for free and fair
elections; not now not ever. That is a political fact! Why should he?
The
only way Mugabe will be forced to accept the reforms is by forcing him to admit
he rigged the 2013 elections and is therefore per se illegitimate. That is the
only way out of this mess!
4 comments:
@ Julea Bacall
I do not know about the "better" but I can say with confidence that we in Africa HAVE the incom-petent, corrupt and ruthlessly oppressive governments we rightly deserve. Getting rid of them; now there is the catch; we expect someone else to do that for us, we pray to God and ask the West or anyone to do it for us. We all wanted to end white colonial exploitation and discrimina-tion and to be independent and to enjoy the rights and freedoms other nations took for granted. What we were not prepared and still refuse to do to this day is accept the duties and responsibilities that came with the rights and freedoms.
The right to vote, for example, comes with it the duty and responsibility on the voter to under-stand the issues at stake so that the vote wisely. The electorate in Africa is some of the most gullible and naïve in the whole world. Yes the subject of wealth creation is a complex and taxing one to University Professors what more to a rural peasant. But even the rural peasant would understand basic economic if they made the effort.
The electorate in Africa are so gullible they believe anything and everything they are told. They never learn from their own or other people's past mistakes and so will make the same mistake again and again.
As a people Africans have been too lazy to think and years of little mental activity has resulted in the brain tissue turning to fat.
Of course the white colonialists saw immediately the African mental weakness and sort to exploit it for and so did the slave-traders before them. The white sort to re-enforce the view that they were smarter that the black Africans and hence the white supremacists ideology was born. The mental damage the white supremacists have done to blacks is incalculable.
The great majority of blacks accepted they were inferior race totally incapable of being masters of their own destiny and thus it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is not therefore surprising that many black Africans are so totally helpless that they need Christian Aid or Oxfam to dig a well or they will drink dirty water teaming with all the water borne diseases.
In this day and age, how can anyone be so helpless they cannot ever dig a well and yet millions in Africa do. Thousands of them suffer and die every day because they are just too lazy to spend a day digging a decent well for their drinking water!
The worst damage that has resulted from the centuries of white making blacks feel inferior is that some blacks have taken to portraying blacks as the superior race and whites as the inferior race so much so that they would rather falsify the facts that accept blacks, especially Afri-can leaders, made a mistake. The need to hide their inferiority as blacks is so powerful that blacks have now been elevated to the pedestal of infallibility which is of course nonsense.
Black African tyrants like Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe have been quick to exploit the blacks' blind hatred of the white working them into a corner in which to criticism him is tantamount to acknowledging that whites superior and blacks are inferiority. The people have been denied a free vote under the pretext that removing him would fulfill the dreaded West’s “regime change agenda”. Mugabe and his propagandist have conveniently ignored the fact that regime change is what the Zimbabwean electorate themselves – not the West – wanted and that it routinely occurs in the dreaded West.
Yes of course most tyrants have used brute force to get into power and to retain it. Still, a deter-mined and mentally awake electorate would sooner or later get rid of the tyrant. In African tyrants stay in power for donkey years and when they finally go it is to replace them with yet another tyrant. We always end up with incompetent, corrupt and oppressive regimes and, giving the little mental effort we have expended in electing leaders, that is what we rightly deserve!
@ Zvaita5321
I agree with you, Mugabe stole the elections. The first big question is what did the people do to stop Mugabe rigging the elections, particularly since everyone knew the tyrant had never held free and fair elections in all his 33 years in power? Nothing!
Tsvangirai and MDC had five years to implement the democratic reforms necessary for free and fair elections. Not even one reform as implemented.
The electorate had their chance reject the weak and feeble Copac constitution in the March 2013 referendum and force a revisit of reforms. The electorate was caught napping; many people, even to this day, do not have the foggiest idea what the reforms were about; and so they voted yes.
The second question is, yes Mugabe is illegitimate but what the people doing about? If people want him out, they will have to force him out. Some people have already resigned to let him rule egged on by the incompetent and blundering idiot, Tsvangirai.
If Zimbabweans want a competent government then they will have to sweat for one; no sweat no gain!
@ Julea Bacall
I agree there are times when the people have been put into a hopeless situation. There is no way the masses in Zimbabwe were going to reject Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs in the 1980 elections, for example. The people then were staring up the business end of the AK14 gun. Since then the people have had countless chances to reassert their right to have a meaningful say in the governance of the country and chance after chance they wasted it.
The only logical explanation why that happened is that the people has been too lazy to make the most of the chance - that is the truth.
The plain truth has never been destructive. On the contrary is the half truth and the out-out lie that are distractive.
@ Zvaita5321
I have said the electorate was caught napping because they blindly followed Tsvangirai, the incompetent leader who had failed to implement even one of the democratic reforms. If you agree with me then how can you then say "the people of Zimbabwe have done everything possible to vote" Mugabe out of power?
What would a civil war achieve? It would throw Mugabe out of power but there is nothing to show that the people will be able to stop another tyrant taking over.
All this talk of democratic change is a waste of time. How did Tsvangirai and all those who fol-lowed him hope to achieve the change without implementing the reforms?
At most one in ten of the people commenting on this site have completely failed to comprehend why the democratic reforms were necessary and yet they have University degrees, many of them. If they, with the benefit of a good education and a sea of information out there, cannot see the wood from the trees what chance does the rural peasant have with no education and brainwashed by Zanu PF propaganda all their lives.
A dozy electorate, and the Zimbabwean electorate have the average IQ of a moron, will never ever produce a competent and democratic government! You do not make a silk purse out of a sow's ear!
Do not get me wrong; I am not saying Zimbabweans are incapable of learning; they are capable of doing that. They problem is not that they have no brain but that they have allowed the brain to turn into fat tissue through years of mind-numbing inactivity.
@ Julea Bacall
I agree there are times when the people have been put into a hopeless situation. There is no way the masses in Zimbabwe were going to reject Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs in the 1980 elections, for example. The people then were staring up the business end of the AK14 gun. Since then the people have had countless chances to reassert their right to have a meaningful say in the governance of the country and chance after chance they wasted it.
The only logical explanation why that happened is that the people has been too lazy to make the most of the chance - that is the truth.
The plain truth has never been destructive. On the contrary it is the half-truth and the out-out lie that are distractive.
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