Tsvangirai and his MDC friends are to blame for a host of things
the main one being their failure to implement the agreed democratic reforms
which allowed Mugabe to blatantly rig the 2013 elections. But to blame them for
Zimbabwe’s economic nose dive of the last last eight months is nonsense.
"For example, you hear already some politicians saying they
think they must demonstrate because things are not working," Professor
Jonathan Moyo, Mugabe's Minister of Information (and Propaganda) argued.
"They say, ‘Oh, Zim-Asset you promised two million jobs or so’; but we
never promised we would create them in six months! So they take a political
statement from a political manifesto and say, ‘I just woke up today and I
dreamt you promised two million jobs and six months later we do not see those
jobs!’
Well as Chief of propaganda there is no doubt that Professor
Moyo is the best Mugabe has ever found in all his 34 years in power. Mugabe
kicked the Professor out of the party when he planned a palace coup but
welcomed him back because the tyrant failed to get a replacement.
Professor Moyo is to Mugabe what Joseph Goebbels was to Adolf
Hitler. The trouble with soulless propagandists like Moyo and Goebbels is that
they are like toy soldiers they will soldier on in the set direction regardless
of the obstacles, dangers and the realities on the ground.
Tsvangirai is calling for public demonstration not because he
expected the two million jobs Zanu PF promised to have been created already
eight months after the elections; even he is not that stupid. Everyone knows
the national economy has going in the wrong direction and, like an elephant, it
takes time to stop it, turn it round and then get it going again in the right
direction.
Mugabe’s ambitious $ 27 billion ZimAsset programme is central to
the regime’s economic recovery plan. Mugabe was confident that the West,
disappointed with Tsvangirai’s breath-taking incompetence, will overlook his
blatant vote rigging and accept him as the de facto Head of State and renew
their funding of his regime. Fortunately, the West was not fooled and refused
to recognise his election victory as legitimate and refused to renew the
funding and invest in Zimbabwe.
Mugabe was sure his Chinese friends will dig deep and bankroll
his economic recovery programme. They too knew any money given to the regime will
be swallowed up by the country ruling elite whose avaricious appetites have
grown in leaps and bounce over the last 34 years of absolute power in the all-consuming
monster it is today. And so not even the Chinese have thrown one Yuan into the
ZimAsset begging bowl!
Of course all would-be investors have noticed the empty begging
bowl and have shied away from Zimbabwe. The few companies still doing business
in Zimbabwe starved of cash - no one wants to borrow/lend money when the economic
future is gloomy - have been closing down.
The GNU failed to stop the lawlessness and establish the rule of
law necessary for full economic recovery. It, however, provided some economic
stability to allow shop, empty in 2008 before the GNU, to fill up with goods
although the country continued to lose jobs at an average rate of 4 000 jobs a
year throughout the life of the GNU.
Ever since the July 2013 elections the economic has taking a
turn for the worse; hundreds of companies have closed throwing over 100 000
workers, by some estimates, out of work. The elephant that had continued to go
in the wrong direction these last five years has certainly been spooked into a
stampede and the same wrong direction. Mugabe and Zanu PF have not done
anything to calm the economy but have instead shave a burning log right up the
elephant’s backside!
Even the incompetent Tsvangirai whose understand of politics and
economics is at best superficial could not fail to notice the empty ZimAsset
begging bowl and the alarming economic nose dive. He is taking this as proof of
his own economic competency, at least compared to Mugabe and Zanu PF, and making
political capital of it through the planned public demonstrations.
The economic melt-down is alarming and it is nonsense to suggest
that the nation should not be showing alarm and demanding immediate action to
stop economic crash. It would be folly to wait until 2018 and see what happens.
It will be too late!
"“A question they should ask in 2018 they are asking six
months after the elections," Professor Moyo argued. "This is because
they are drunk with politics and do not have a well-grounded view of life,
society and economy."
It is Mugabe, Moyo and their fellow Zanu PF thugs who are drunk
with politics, absolute power and the looted wealth. Their insatiable greed for
power and wealth these last 34 years has ruined the nation economical and
destroyed the nation’s ability to stop this madness. Instead of admitting they
have failed all the regime is doing is offering excuses why the nation should
continue to suffer in damn anguish the economic melt-down and to justify why
the regime will once again use brute force to silence its critics and the
nation.
Professor Moyo not even
you can twist the facts on the ground to blame breathtakingly incompetent
Tsvangirai for Zimbabwe’s alarming economic nose dive of the last eight months.
This is nothing more than the wolf blaming the sheep, drinking down-stream of
the wolf, of fouling the water!
Mugabe blatantly rigged the 2013 elections now he must conjure
up the $27 billion to fill the ZimAsset begging bowl; stop the rampant
corruption by his Zanu PF thugs in which he is the chief culprit with his $ 10
million Blue Roof mansion, $5 million wedding, etc.; restore the rule of law;
etc.
The economic melt-down is the system’s response to the empty
begging bowl, the criminal waste of resources in the rampant corruption, etc. Since
Mugabe has clearly failed to address these the economic melt-down is only going
to get worse, a lot worse and one way or the other Mugabe and Zanu PF will be
forced to accept that they have failed!
My fervent hope is that Mugabe will accept he is a failure now
and not drag the nation into the chaos that has befallen other nation like
Syria where a failed tyrant has stubbornly hang on power at the price of reducing
the whole country into rumble, causing an told suffering to millions and deaths
to hundreds of thousands!
8 comments:
@ Ðiblo
Admit failure that is the one thing Mugabe and Zanu PF will never ever do. They have a lot of loot and too many hidden skeletons to let any meaningful political change that would result in them losing their loot and all the skeletons being brought out is the open!
Mugabe and Zanu PF have enjoyed absolute power for 34 years and have abused that power so much that they cannot give it up now. They can’t! We will have to devise clever ways of forcing they to give up power or the regime will turn Zimbabwe into another North Korea on one extreme or Syria on the other.
@ Chitungwiza
Mugabe talked about fighting corruption only the other day during his long winded Inde-pendence Day speech. Chinamasa too also talked about fighting corruption when he an-nounced the $6 000 salary cap on these greedy managers.
The point here is it is all too little too late. Cuthert Dube's huge salaries are huge to you and me and the rest of the impoverished Zimbabweans but it is still small fry compared to the cor-ruption that has allowed a dim wit like Mai Mujuru to amass a $ 3 billion fortune and Mugabe to build the Blue Roof mansion and throw a $1 million birthday party one week and $ 5 million weddings the next!
The essence of Professor Moyo's speech was to ask the nation to do nothing about the eco-nomic collapse and leave it until 2018. He is also justifying Zanu PF's brutal repression of any public demonstrations against the economic melt-down on the grounds that those taking part are "drunk with politics"!
Mugabe will not hesitate murdering another 30 000 or more innocent Zimbabweans just to stay in power. And any excuse will do!
He has only mentioned corruption because Zanu PF has to be seen to be addressing this scourge, after all the decades of denying corruption was a problem! Talking about corruption is one thing but doing something concrete about it is something Mugabe and Zanu PF cannot do because they are all corrupt and corruption is the glue that has held the party together!
@ Karikoga
I agree Tsvangirai also promised as many jobs with his JUICE programme although he failed to produce any jobs during the GNU. Still Professor Moyo cannot blame Tsvangirai, incompetent as many would now agree, for the economic melt-down of the last eight months!
@ New Zimbabwean
What do you mean lack in IQ, I said the EU was wrong to trust Mugabe and I was right. The EU, particularly Belgium, push to re-engage with the Mugabe regime because they wanted Zimbabwe's diamonds. Whilst the EU was busy negotiating the lifting of the sanctions in one room Mugabe had a delegation from Dubai finalizing the deal to sell of Zimbabwe diamonds in the Middle East!
Still the EU had the last laugh. They refused to grand Grace Mugabe a visa to travel to Brussels knowing she was desperate to go and what a storm she would cause if she is does not - Mugabe was in the dog-house! For all the talk of Mugabe ruling the country and his party with an iron fist; no one on earth has been more dominate by their partner like the hen pecked Mugabe! Remember reports of how it was Grace who had insisted on Bona marrying the pilot contrary to CIO reports questioning his suitability. Hen pecked Mugabe was probably told to shut his trap!
Mugabe must regime or the Zimbabwe economy is set for a catastrophic crash. There is nothing the EU much less the hen pecked Mugabe can do about that one. Watch this space - time will prove me right. Low IQ, no my friend it is people like you whose IQ is low because you have denied the reality and continued to support a tyrant whose end is now upon us.
@ New Zimbabwean
It is a lot easier to call someone an idiot even an idiot can say it. It is another matter proving that someone is indeed an idiot. In this case time has proven me right in the past and will do so again here. Watch this space!
I agree with you, Zimbabweans are a naïve and gullible lot. Last year Tsvangirai told them the Copac constitution would bring free and fair elections, vote for it in the March 2013 referendum and they all did. The rubbish constitution sailed through by 95% Yes vote. Four months latter Mugabe blatantly rigged the vote precisely because the new constitution gave him powers to do as he pleased.
This year it is Makandiwa who is taking the naïve Zimbabwean for a ride! To foretell that the country's economy will recover with saying when is totally meaningless. It I like me saying Zimbabwe will have a good harvest but do not say when; of course there is bound to be a good season, that is a given. I am not a prophet but call me a prophet if you wish.
Makandiwa is telling a people who have done nothing these last 34 years to stop Mugabe destroy the country's one prosperous economy the economy will recovery. That is music to these peoples ears in that they will now have hope of a brighter future (whenever it will be) but more significantly it tell them they do not have to lift a finger.
Mugabe will pay Makandiwa (if he has not done so already) for doing him a big favour; the tyrant was getting worried about public arrest in the face of the worsen economic melt-down. He does not have worry about that now; the nation's hope of prosperity is renewed - hooked on Makadiwa's prediction!
Mao talked of religion being the opium of the people; in Zimbabwe everyone, it seems, is addicted!
@ Zim lover
The hand that feeds these leader is that of the people and not that of the tyrant; we are in this mess because they thought otherwise.
You should not be so naïve to be taken in by people like Moyo's pretence. If he has indeed changed then he should admit Mugabe rigged the last elections!
@ Joemuda
You must be the only one still wittering about the sanctions and has not head about the rampant corruption in Zimbabwe. Mugabe himself has finally admitted there is rampant corruption and it is obvious it is the root cause of the economic melt-down. There was no way the economic could have thrived given the extend of the blooding from the corruption.
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