Zimbabwe will send a team to Germany to follow up on Germany’s
offer to help end Zimbabwe’s worsening economic meltdown on condition there are
meaningful economic and political reforms.
"The rule of law is very important in any legal system, it
means that things become predictable. As we try to woo investors to come back,
they will come into a system that is predictable, into a frame work where they
can have recourse into the law and find remedies. And we will work very strongly
to achieve that end," was Minister Patrick Chinamasa’s response to
Ambassador Schmidt’s call for the restoration of the rule of law.
This is really tragic; the Zanu PF regime is still refusing to
comprehend the seriousness of the country’s political and economic situation
and thus treat the matter with the gravity it demands.
How many times has Zimbabwe been told that the country must end
its lawless farm invasions and seizures, scrap its obnoxious indigenisation
laws, etc.? How many times have Minister Chinamasa and other senior Zanu PF leaders
promised to end the lawlessness and yet do nothing!
The Germans and the whole world have lost confidence in Zanu PF
doing anything to restore the rule of law. We all know that too many Zanu PF leaders
have too much to lose, their political careers, their looted wealth and big
number of them have a very dirty past they simply cannot afford to let the
world know. They know that restoring property rights will be the thin end of a
thick wedge that will end up with the dreaded regime change. Have regime change
and they have lost everything!
What Minister Chinamasa, his boss Mugabe and all the other Zanu
PF cronies have to realize is that Zimbabwe is not going to get out of the
economic crisis without regime change with restoring the rule of law and the
economic meltdown is socially and politically unsustainable.
The Germans are offering Zimbabwe a way out of the economic meltdown
but they are not going to be fooled by Harare’s usual long speeches full of
sound and fury but with no substance. The Germans are not interested in empty talk;
they will not bankroll Mugabe’s ZimAsset; etc.
The Germans’ offer is simple enough; they will help Zimbabwe’s
economic recovery and repay our national debt on condition that we implement meaningful
economic and political reforms. The only way to meet that condition is for Zanu
PF to step down and allow the implementation of ALL democratic reforms.
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