It is true that
religion has become "the opium" to the people of Zimbabwe. As the country's
political and economic nightmare grew worse so many of them have turned to religion;
praying to God to deliver them from the mess.
We all know
that corruption has been rampant in Zimbabwe, for example, and that it is the
root cause of the country's economic melt-down. Ask Zimbabweans why they have
done nothing to ensure this cancer is removed and they will tell you "What
can we do?" In other words they do not want to do anything but expect the
West and God to do something about it.
After
independence Zimbabweans had the political power to decide how the nation was
to be ruled. They gave up that power cheaply and thus allowed Mugabe and Zanu
PF to do as they pleased. And the tyrant and his cronies have done just that
with the disastrous consequences we now see.
If April
1980 was the equivalent of the day the children of Israel were allowed to leave
Egypt then whilst the former faced the hardships of the 40 year long journey to
the promised land Zimbabweans were not prepared to face any hardships and thus
stayed put.
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The National Social Security Authority (NSSA) has become the latest public entity to be rocked by allegations of graft, after it emerged Friday that the authority is embroiled in a $50 million dollar scam. NSSA is the latest public entity to be rocked by allegations of graft.
For the last 34 years Mugabe and his cronies have denied that there was corruption in Zimbabwe and they have very vehemently refuted that corruption - the odd occasion they were forced to admit that there was corruption - in anyway caused the country's economic melt-down.
The stories that have come out these last few months have not only put to bed the issue that was indeed corruption in Zimbabwe but that it was rampant and deep rooted corruption - the type that sucked all the profit and capital, the life and soul, out of the company. It is inconceivable how the companies and ultimately the national economy could be expected to prosper let alone survive such an unrelenting onslaught!
Mugabe has allowed corruption to take root and thrive because that was the glue that held his party together. All these years Mugabe has denied there was corruption because he not only gained from it but it was what kept him and his cronies in power.
The prospect of losing power was simply unthinkable for Mugabe and the Zanu PF dictatorship; they really are paranoid at regime change!
Mugabe used brutal force to silence the people and usurp their political power to hold him and the Zanu PF dictatorship to account. With nothing to restrain them Mugabe and his cronies' ap-petites for the good life have grown exponentially and with it the corruption. The economic melt-down was as logically and inevitable as a bacteria culture in a petri dish.
Corruption has choked off all economic growth and with no loot for his cronies Mugabe cannot hold the party together. Corruption has held Zanu PF together but it was also proven to be the party's undoing.
Mugabe is not concerned that there is yet another rampant corruption story has broken out but that there is really nothing left for his cronies to loot, there is nothing left for him to bribe them with to buy their blind loyalty to him and the Zanu PF dictatorship.
Agriculture Minister Joseph Made tells Zanu PF loyalists who benefited from the party’s seizure of white-owned farms that they will not get the usual tax-free government handouts in the form of farming input subsidies this year.
The schemes had been used by Mugabe to benefit party loyalists who had already benefited to the farm allocations. Years of rampant corruption have destroyed the nation's economy;, corrup-tion has killed the goose that laid the golden egg. Zanu PF loyalists used to getting money left, right and center will now find all these schemes have dried up.
These loyalists will have to make do without all these hidden sources of funds, they will have to forego their expensive lifestyles - that is going to be tough for them after all these years of unfettered luxuries.
"Zanu-PF has used sanctions as a tool with which to undermine the opposition by accusing them of serving foreign interests, but the opposition has struggled to find an effective counter-narrative to win hearts and minds," said Knox Chitiyo.
Chitiyo is right in saying the MDC has “struggled to find an effective counter-narrative” but is wrong to insinuate from it that a counter-narrative is not there. It is there and many others have put forward that narrative.
Many people have said that it was not the sanctions that have destroyed Zimbabwe’s economy years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. Mugabe has vehemently denied there were corruption let alone rampant corruption to destroy the national economy. But recent stories of how Zanu PF appointed managers in State run companies like ZBC have destroyed the com-panies and the national economy have silenced Mugabe and his propagandists. These manag-ers have been paying themselves exorbitant salaries and allowances leaving the companies with no money for the day-to-day operations or to pay the lowly paid workers.
The people of Zimbabwe have never been fooled by Mugabe’s propaganda denying corruption because they have eyes. They have seen how the ruling elite have amass vast wealth with peo-ple like VP Mujuru having $ 3 billion and many of the Minister are multi-millionaires. The people know these individuals are not world renowned footballer, musicians, inventors or anything! Mu-gabe did not “win the hearts and minds” as Chitiyo is insinuating here. The tyrant rigged the 2013 Zimbabwe elections.
Mugabe corrupted the voters roll to deny nearly a million voters the vote, for example. The tyrant, with the help of an Israeli company Nikuv, deliberately posted the voters’ names in another ward than the one the expected so on voting-day their names were not found in the voters roll. For the last seven Mugabe has stubbornly refused to release the voters roll, the smoking gun of the rigged elections, although the law says the roll should be released one month before the voting.
The opposition party led by Morgan Tsvangirai has proven to be incompetent; that is a matter of public record. But even with the electorate aware of the opposition’s incompetence Mugabe would have lost the election if he had not resorted to cheating; that is how much Zimbabweans hate Mugabe! And so Rugare Gumbo is lying in saying Mugabe “leads with the wishes of the people." The tyrant has never held free and fair elections in all his 34 years in power!
@ Will B free
It is good that people believe in freedom so passionately to even risk their lives to attain it. Was that not what so many died for before independence and after? And yet to look at where we are today as a nation many will be tempted to say no Zimbabwean has ever believe or valued free-dom. It is clearly not enough to believe in and value freedom.
All the human sacrifices the nation has made on the altar of freedom, justice and liberty has failed to bring these things because our understanding of these things has always remained su-perficial at best. We want freedom of expression for ourselves, for example, but no sooner we have a voice that we use it to silence others, denying them the very thing we value for ourselves.
Whatever rights and freedoms we seek for ourselves they are best secured within the context of there are the rights and freedoms for everyone and not just a select few. Those who fail to secure these freedoms for others ultimately lose them too.
Mugabe and his fellow black nationalists professed of fighting for freedom and one-man one-vote only to systematically and ruthlessly deny the people all these things as soon as they were in power!
ZIMBABWE’S foreign missions are struggling with a $13-million debt; things are so bad that rent and utility bills are not being paid!
Last year Mugabe was spending money hand-over-fist to ensure a Zanu PF victory in the elec-tion. The tyrant squandered $13 million to Nikuv to corrupt the voters roll, for example. It was the reckless spending that has precipitated the country's current economic melt-down. The tyrant was taking money from budgeted public activities to pay for private and selfish activities and now the chicken are coming home to roost!
@ Observer
Mugabe has managed to hold his Zanu PF party and thus stay in power all these last 34 years by allowing his party loyalists to be corrupt. Corruption has been the cancer that has cause the country's economic melt-down. Mugabe and his propagandists have denied corruption even existed; they blamed the economic melt-down to the "illegal sanctions imposed by the West".
In the last six months there have been one story after another of serious and deep rooted corruption in government run institutions. The level of the looting uncovered rob the institution of all the profits and capital, its very life and soul. The cause of the economic melt-down is settled,
But worse still, there is nothing Mugabe can do to stop the corruption because he too has been involved in the corruptions and so too are all his Zanu PF ruling elite. To make matters worse for Mugabe corruption has killed the goose that lay the golden egg - he has nothing to bribe his party loyalists with.
Mugabe and his Zanu PF dictatorship are finish.
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