“ZANU (PF) has failed to unlock the potential
of our country. The key reason for this is the lack of an inclusive national
socio economic vision, chronic leadership failure, patronage, greed, corruption,
lack of accountability, and their inability to manage and implement consistent
economic policies and developmental projects,” wrote Vince Musewe in his latest
article.
No thinking Zimbabwean would ever dispute that;
God knows we have gone over this a million times a day this last year alone! The billion dollar question is; what the hell
are we going to do about it?
“We all know that where there is no vision, any
nation will fail and Zimbabwe is classic example of this. We will change that,”
continued Vince.
“PDP's economic blue print HOPE (Holistic Program
for Economic Transformation) acknowledges these facts and has identified 13
economic drivers that are key to creating a vibrant and viable economy which is
inclusive and allows all Zimbabweans, regardless of race, gender or political
affiliation, to pursue their ambition unhindered by the government. Economic
freedom is therefore key.” He continued along the same vein and promised the
readers detailed analysis of the 13 economic drivers will follow in the next 13
weeks!
Wait a minute! Vince has himself admitted above
that Zimbabwe has failed to realize its real economic potential because of “the
lack of an inclusive national socio economic vision, chronic leadership
failure, patronage, greed, etc., etc. and, (most important of all in my view) lack
of (democratic) accountability”.
Nowhere has Vince said Zimbabwe’s chronic
economic failures were due to the opposition parties failing to come up with
viable economic blue prints. Indeed ever since MDC was launched in 1999, they
have come up with one economic blue print after another without failure. None
of their programmes have ever seen the light of day, so their true value what
never put to the taste; because Zanu PF has never relinquished political power
to MDC or anyone else, hence the reason why lack of democratic accountability
is the most important issue here.
So why is PDP wasting the nation’s time with 13
weeks of detailed analysis of its economic blue print when, without political
reforms and thus democratic accountability, the blue print will never see the
light of day just as happened to all the other opposition programmes for the
last 36 years?
Vince Musewe is comparable to the mouse who
suggested tying a bell on cat so that all the mice will be warned of the cat.
Great idea, agreed the other. The idea fell flat on its face, when no one
volunteered to tie the bell. It was just inconceivable for one creep up to the
cat without waking it when one is carrying a bell designed to ring even louder
the more stealth step one makes!
We really should not be wasting time, 36 years
after independence, talking about Vince’s bell solution because we already know
the solution.
Mugabe and Zanu PF have continued in their corrupt
ways implementing economic policies that defy common sense because they are not
accountable to the people. The solution is clear enough; change the country’s
political system so that Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies are democratically
accountable to the people. SADC in 2008 produced a list of democratic reforms
the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai were tasked to implement.
SADC’s list of GPA democratic reforms did not ask
MDC to produce an economic blue print because they knew the nation could deal
with this in good time but only after the political transformation has taken
place.
MDC failed to get even one democratic reform
implemented in five years of the GNU, as we know. We are back to where we were
in 2008; if we want economic transformation we must first implemented the 2008
GPA democratic reforms! Instead of concentrating on implementing the reforms we
are being distracted by Vince Musewe who still wants the nation to concentrate
of economic blue prints.
So we have explained to Speedy Gonzales that if
the bell is to save its purpose of warning the mice of the cat, then the bell
must be so sensitive it must ring even at the twitch of a muscle. It would be
impossible for any mouse to creep on the cat and install such a bell. It is
therefore tedious to have to listen to Speedy Gonzales wittering on about the
colour of the bell, its ringing tone, the double reef knot to tie the string,
etc.
Is Vince Musewe’s wittering on and on about
this HOPE economic blue print a calculated political distraction?
A friend of mine was telling me the other day
of how Mugabe has undermined all Zimbabwe’s democratic institutions and very façade
of life by deploying his spies and double agents everywhere. Didymus Mutasa, when
he was the Minister in the President’s Office to whom the CIO reported,
confirmed how extensive and intrusive Mugabe’s CIO network is. “We know everything
about everyone!” boasted Mutasa!
I have not made up my mind whether Vince Musewe
is a Zanu PF double agent planted to ensure the opposition do nothing about
implementing the important GPA reforms, just as the regime’s double agents
successfully stopped any reforms being implemented during the GNU. During the
GNU MDC wasted five years messing around drafting the weak and feeble new
constitution and kicked the reforms into the tall grass. This time the
opposition is wasting its time producing a perfect economic blue print and
implementing wishy-washy electoral law reforms.
On the other hand, it is possible that Vince
Musewe has genuinely failed to understand that there is nothing that ever be
accomplished on the economic front until there is real democratic reform on the
political front. Or is Speedy Gonzales none other than his exact opposite,
Slowpoke Rodriguez!
3 comments:
There is no doubt that Mugabe is a hen-pecked husband and, unfortunately, she is now extend-ing her wings and her busy beak to pecking all those below her husband - that means everybody. Grace happens to have ambition, no brain and a big mouth; that always spells trouble but given her presidential powers that spells serious trouble.
Zimbabwe is now in danger of descent into chaos and be consumed by a senseless fire. It is not inconceivable Grace Mugabe would be found to be the one who lit that fire!
If the democratic reforms called for in the 2008 GPA were implemented none of the security sectors would be destabilized in anyway by the in fighting in Zanu PF. The only reasons the fighting in Zanu PF is being felt in the Army, Police, CIO, etc. is because these sectors have been politicized to the point they were just another department of the party.
What we need here is to implement the democratic reforms and thus cut the links connecting all these security sectors to the party once and once for all. Any other action will only precipitate a civil war as the various groups in the army or police will fall behind their political master in the party.
Zimbabwe is not in this mess because the opposition failed to produce sound alternative economic blue prints to Mugabe's ZimAsset plan or whatever; they did. The opposition's plans never saw the light of day because Zanu PF has remained in power for 36 years by rigging elections.
If we do not have political reforms your HOPE plan too will never see the light of day. So why are you wasting time wittering about economic plans when you should be concentrating on getting the political reforms?
We need political reforms and nothing will ever be accomplished until we have meaningful political change; have gone over this point countless times. I am beginning to think you are not interested in any political change - you only pretend to be interested! You are paid to ensure the opposition waste time chasing shadows just as they did during the GNU and no democratic reforms are implemented!
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