Patrick Zhuwao, who is
Mugabe's nephew, told the Herald newspaper: "As you are aware, this Zanu
PF government was elected on a mandate of indigenisation, empowerment and
employment creation.
"So I believe that
it will be my responsibility to ensure that we continue with that programme of
indigenisation as articulated by His Excellency [Mugabe]", Zhuwao said
Unemployment has soared to 90% plus so what
employment opportunities has the regime created? You talk of empowering our
people and yet 16% or 2 million of our people now live in abject poverty.
This Zanu PF government was NOT elected by the
people of Zimbabwe, Mugabe rigged the elections thanks to the corrupt and
incompetent Tsvangirai and his MDC idiots. They were given 18 months to
implement the 2008 GPA democratic reforms every agreed were necessary for free,
fair and credible elections. They stretched the time to 60 months and still
they failed to get even one reform implemented. Mugabe went on to rig the
elections and the rest is the nightmare we find ourselves in.
Yes Minister Zhuwao you can continue with your
indigenisation programme and black empowerment – the only people is has
empowered is people like you any empty drum minister for no other reason than
that you are Mugabe’s nephew. But what you cannot change is the economic
reality on the ground; direct foreign investment has completely dried up, you
are insisting on getting 51% of zero new investment.
There have been no new employment
opportunities because zero new investment produces zero new jobs.
Whilst this regime has continued to pursue its
failed policies more and more companies have been forced to lay off workers or
close down. After decades of refusing to reduce their bloated labour force
government, parastatals, local government, etc. are now set to lay off
thousands of workers.
The appointment of Minister Zhuwao and a
number of other new ministers and deputy ministers to swell the size of cabinet
to 60 (Ian Smith managed with 12 cabinet members) at the time government is set
to lay-off thousands of civil servants just does not make any sense. But then
this is a tyrant used to making decisions that defy logic and common sense.
35 years of relentless corruption,
mismanagement and lawlessness as exemplified by the indigenisation programme
have supped all the strength from the national economy. The economic meltdown
which has pushed unemployment to 90% plus, forced 2 million into abject
poverty, has left the country unable to provide something as basic as clean
running water, etc. in real and it is getting worse.
Two weeks ago Mugabe assured Nigerian
billionaire Aliko Dangote that the obnoxious indigenisation law will be waived.
He was set to invest $1 billion. He will not be amused to hear the regime is
not ditching its indigenisation laws. Mr Dangote has better things to do than
waste his time renegotiating the waiver all over again; he will pull out of the
deal.
Mugabe has managed to avoid regime change stay
in power for 35 years because he was able to cheat, bamboozle, rig elections
and even murder his political opponents. But in the economy, he has met more
than his match; the economic meltdown has brought about an economic crisis he
cannot ignore although he is doing his best to do so. The universal truth of
the mathematic equation is irrefutable:
51%
of zero new investment = zero black empowerment + zero
new jobs
Mugabe and his nephew can say what they like
but they will not change anything. Indeed it is the tyrant’s failure to create
empowerment and jobs out of nothing that, in the end, will him to accept regime
change!
51%
of zero new investment = zero black
empowerment + zero new jobs (stage 1)
=
economic meltdown (stage
2)
=
regime change (long dreaded by Mugabe) (stage
3)
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