Economic meltdown hits war vets hard but Mutsvangwa it is "deliberate maladministration plot"!

 

Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is real and it is sparing no one. The war vets, some of the few people who have thought that they will somehow remain untouched by the economic chaos, are now admitting the economic hardship are affecting them too.

 

The Zanu PF regime has been struggling to find enough money to pay civil servant wages let alone all other financial commitments. It turns out that since last year the regime has not been paying school fees and pension allowance for war vets.

 

"We understand there has been a deliberate plot to push comrades into indebtedness through the administration or maladministration of their pensions and allowances," Minister responsible for war veterans, Christopher Mutsvangwa.

 

 There are people like Minister Mutsvangwa who are still in denial of the economic meltdown; they still live in their own cloud cuckoo-land in which all Zimbabweans enjoy the lives of leisure and luxuries as that enjoyed by the Mugabes and a few of his cronies. According to Minister Mutsvangwa, the economic meltdown the nation is suffering is a result of the three and half decades of criminal waste of human and material resources through mismanagement and corruption but merely a “deliberate maladministration plot!”

 

After three and half decades of waiting for this Zanu PF mass prosperity; even the most naïve and gullible of the war vets must now realize that Mutsvangwa’s cloud cuckoo-land is a myth, there is mass poverty in Zimbabwe and it is getting worse by the day.

 

Many of the war vets have continued to support the Zanu PF dictatorship convinced the regime would never allow them to sink into economic poverty that have ravished the povo. They have had a very rude awaken; welcome to reality comrades!

 

The most important lesson for the war vets to learn from this is that no nation can prosper whilst there is so much waste of human and material resource as has been happening in Zimbabwe these last three and half decades. Stopping this criminal waste of resources is not a partisan issue but a national one. It is in all our interest that Zimbabwe is truly prosperous and stop this cloud cuckoo-land delusions of prosperity through waste.

 

 

The only way to end the economic meltdown is by carrying out the economic reforms designed to end mismanagement and corruption fuelling the criminal waste of resources and end the lawlessness which has kept donors and investors out of the country. Mugabe and Zanu PF have done nothing about the mismanagement, etc. because they are an integral part of the regime’s patronage system which has kept Mugabe and the party in power.

 

The country’s economic demise has dragged Mugabe and Zanu PF’s popularity down the drain force the regime to rely more and more on its patronage system to stay in power regardless of its negative effect on the economy.

 

With national economy in ICU, there is mounting pressure on Mugabe and Zanu PF today to end the patronage system behind all the country’s economic ills; on the one hand. On the other hand the regime knows that ending the patronage system will be to commit political suicide.

 

Of course Mugabe and his cronies will never do anything to dismantle the political patronage system the regime needs now more than ever to stay in power. It is not in the nature of tyrannical regimes to give up political power no matter how incompetent they have already proven to be, especially when the regime has so much loot to protect and so many hidden skeletons to keep under wraps as this Zanu PF regime has.

 

Of course, as long as Mugabe and Zanu PF remain in power and with it the political patronage system remains then the economic meltdown will get worse and not better.

 

The economic meltdown has not spared those within the Zanu PF ruling elite either; the shrinking national cake has resulting in serious infighting within the party. Zanu PF is imploding.

 

Zanu PF patronage system was always doom to result in economic failure because no economy in the world and sustain the level criminal waste of human and material resources it caused forever. Three and half decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have taken their toll on the Zimbabwe economy and ever since the rigged July 2013 elections the national economy has taken a dangerous nose dive and, unless something is finally done to end the economic waste, the national economy is heading for a catastrophic crash.

 

The people of Zimbabwe have a simple choice, either stand up to Mugabe and his cronies and demand the implementation of all the democratic reforms necessary for free and fair elections. Since Zanu PF itself does not have the vision nor will to end the political patronage system the only legally way of removing this regime and through free and fair elections.

 

The alternative is to let the Zanu PF dictatorship, which has from marched the nation right up to the edge of the abyss these last 35 years, to remain in power and drag us all over the edge into the abyss.

The fight for democratic reforms, free and fair elections is not a partisan issue but a national one.  The survival of this nation is now dependent on our ability to finally comprehend the seriousness of our present political and economic situation and stop this madness before it is too late. The survival of this nation is now dependent on groups like the war vets waking up to the reality that the economic meltdown is real and not “deliberate maladministration plot” as some brainwashed Zanu PF cronies like Mutsvangwa would still maintain!