EU - Zimbabwe relations thawed 2 years ago but still no EU investment - they are now tormenting Mugabe

“THE British secretary for international development, Mark Lowcock will this week visit Zimbabwe, for the second time in two years as relations between Harare and the west continue to thaw,” reported New Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe's relationship with EU thawed two years ago what it has failed to produce was the financial aid and funding, especially of Mugabe’s ZimAsset economic recovery plan which is now dead in the water. The truth is the EU did not have any intention back then or do they have any now of bankrolling Mugabe’s ZimAsset plan. Mugabe does not want to accept that reality and hence the reason the regime propaganda machine keeps talking of “thawing relationship” as if the EU will bankroll ZimAsset once the relationship in warm and comfortable!

The British and everyone knows that is what Mugabe will be dying to hear that the British minister has brought with him a suitcase full of cash, with promises of plane loads of more cash to follow, to help ease Zimbabwe’s now unbearable economic hardships! What the minister will say is that the British have loads and loads of money and they would like to invest in Zimbabwe but before that can happen Zimbabwe must scrap its obnoxious indigenisation laws.

Many EU member countries have sent high powered trade delegations to Zimbabwe since the EU lifted the targeted sanctions imposed on all Mugabe's 100 or so cronies all except the tyrant and his wife. All the delegates without exception have said they would want to invest in Zimbabwe but not whilst the obnoxious indigenisation laws remain on the statute book.

Of course Zimbabwe’s indigenisation laws demanding that all foreign investors must sale 51% of their shares to a local partner, appointed by the corrupt regime, are obnoxious.  It is bad enough to have to pay tax, development levy, etc., etc. but to be yoked with a useless and wasteful partner who is nothing but a blood sucking parasite is asking for too much.

So the EU have taken turns to tell Mugabe they have the money, lots and lots of it, to invest and help end the economic meltdown it is going through but they are not going to spend even one penny whilst he remains in power since he is not going to scrap his flagship indigenisation laws.

Yes EU-Zimbabwe relationship thawed a long time ago. We are now in a new phase in which the EU trade delegation visiting Zimbabwe go through the motion of praising the country’s potential for investment, raising the excitement in the regime’s circle desperate for inward investment to fever pitch level; and then the whole thing collapse because of the obnoxious indigenisation laws. To say the EU is teasing Mugabe will be an understatement; they are tormenting him mercilessly!

For years Mugabe has denounced and insulted the “evil British imperialists and their Western allies” from every public platform both inside Zimbabwe and outside. At his lavish birthday party in Victoria Falls, he mentioned the “evil sanctions” but, unlike him, he did not elaborate and denounce the British and their allies who imposed them. He has not mellowed; he must have known of the British minister’s visit and had his fingers and toes crossed he might have the suitcase of cash!

After years of being insulted by Mugabe, the British are now having their own back only they are not doing so from a rooftop, they are very subtle about it. They know Zimbabwe is serious economic trouble, there is a growing rebellion in Mugabe’s Zanu PF party and, as if that was not bad enough for the tyrant, his health is failing and he is frail from old age.

“Keep your England and I will keep my Zimbabwe!” Mugabe has said repeatedly in his firebrand bygone years! He has made a complete dog’s breakfast of keeping his Zimbabwe and now he is weak and feeble his evil past of corruption, vote rigging, murderous repression, etc. are all coming back to haunt him. The British are sending a minister to ask him how he is doing!

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bone," said William Shakespeare.

There is no doubt that the evils of decades of criminal waste of resources because of corruption and mismanagement will live long after Mugabe is gone and generations of Zimbabweans will continue to suffer because of it. It is gratifying that Mugabe has survived long enough to suffer the consequences of his evil past.

The British Minister will see for himself how the firebrand of yesteryears is now nothing more than the castoff coat of the snake expect that in this case the snake did not have the energy to crawl out; it is all shrivelled but still inside the tattered and torn coat!

People will be asking the British Minister how is President Mugabe in that sarcastic and derogatory voice which everyone knows is asking how is the mother – c***! It is the British’s turn to laugh at Mugabe and they will be laughing for decades to come!

The pompous and self-righteous shall be humbled. The silver back chest drumming Robert Mugabe has not been humbled, he has been totally humiliated! The longer he tries to hang on to power the more pathetic Mugabe is going to look. That is the tyrant forte; they will not quit whilst they are ahead and even when the game is truly lost they will still hang on deluding they are still invincible when their iron grip of the past is nothing but a feeble touch!