ActionAid Zimbabwe Head of Programmes and Policy Toendepi Kamusewu said the major areas of concern where little has been done by politicians to fulfil their electoral promises is gender and health service delivery.
Does this mean that Action Aid has accepted the recent election results as fait accompli because that is exactly what Zanu PF thugs would want us to do.
Zanu PF rigged the 30 July elections the regime must step down because it is illegitimate. The idea of sweeping the blatant vote rigging under the carpet is a foolish one, we have done this for the last 38 years and it has not worked. It is insane to keep trying it hoping for different result.
Zanu PF thugs are the nation's worst curse but a close second has to be these civic groups with their wishy-washy programmes that undermine the nation's fight for meaningful democratic change under the pretext they programmes are bring about the democratic changes the nation is dying for.
We have an illegitimate government and someone is wittering about "a motion to introduce an electoral promises tracking system meant to ensure that they deliver on the pledges". How foolish is that!!!!!
Zimbabwe’s annual rate of inflation increased by 10,16 percentage points to 31,01 percent in the month of November from 20.85 percent in October as speculative price increases took their toll on the economy.
Zimbabwe's unemployment rate is a dizzying 90%, 75% of the people are living on US$1.00 a day or less, etc. These are danger warning signs the nation has ignored for years but at its own peril. The economic situation has taken a turn for the worse in the last four months and there is nothing to suggest things are going to get better.
President Mnangagwa and his cronies have failed to come up with even one proposal to suggest the regime realizes the seriousness of the country's problem. All the nation heard throughout the conference in Esigodini was the usual platitude and empty promises.
The country is now in real danger of serious social unrest with people protesting the worsen economic situation.
@ Eddie Cross “In addition to the above factors, the introduction of exchange control and the way it is being administered by the Reserve Bank is having the following effect on local markets and on the productive sector: 1. The use of the artificial exchange rate of 1:1 is taking real value from the foreign earnings of exporters and replacing it with RTGS dollars valued by markets at 3.5 to one. On average this is depreciating the overall earnings of the export sector by more than half. The result is that production levels of all export industries is in decline and gold production is again going back into the informal market where no exchange control influence exists. Official intake of gold has declined by 40 per cent, tobacco plantings are down and major exporters are considering shutting down until the situation corrects itself,” you said. I am not an economists still if “gold intake has declined 40%, tobacco plantings are down, etc., etc.; this is surely not good news to the nation desperate for economic recovery. Yet you are the one who has heaped praise of this regime’s economic policies these last four months! The truth is there is no hope of any meaningful economic recovery in Zimbabwe until the country gets the fundamentals right including ending its pariah state status. All your optimism and confidence in Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube was in fact totally unfounded. This is not the first time you have been hopelessly wrong. Remember the 2008 to 2013 GNU when you and your fellow MDC friends failed to implement even one reform and thus landing us in this mess of Zanu PF blatantly rigging elections we are in to this day! Zimbabwe will be better off if big mouths like you, Mr Cross, would just shut up! All you have ever done is add to the confusion!
“A caring organization would seek solutions for the ongoing doctor’s strike and the crisis in the health sector in its holistic sense including drug shortages. A governing party would seek to find solutions to the recurring cholera outbreaks,” you said. What are you wittering about, if MDC had implemented the democratic reforms during the GNU Zimbabwe would not be in this mess! You lot participated in the recent elections without even bothering to demand a verified voters roll. What democratic changes has MDC delivered in all its 19 years in politics?
“Re-engagement to end isolation, pay debts and arrears and get new funding, besides rebuilding foreign, trade and investment relations will require political legitimacy and stability, and a clear and consistent policy reform agenda,” said the diplomat.
“In this environment, this is not possible, hence we are saying the Zimbabwean government and President Mnangagwa must realise that dialogue and consensus are now a sine qua non for recovery, growth and progress. This can’t be avoided anymore, unless, of course, Zimbabwe is to be allowed to slide backwards into the abyss with disastrous consequences. Leadership is needed to take the country forward. That means putting the national interest above individual and party political considerations.”
This 100% correct. What the visiting Kenyan Judge is failing to understand is that neither Mnangagwa nor Chamisa will ever play a constructive role in defining the roadmap out of the mess Zimbabwe is in. The two and their respective parties are the ones who dragged us into this mess; it is naïve to expect them to know how to get us out.
Zimbabweans need the courage and foresight to confront and confound the demons amongst them. We need to tell both Zanu PF and MDC leaders it is time for them to go. They have over stayed for any good they have done to the nation. They must step down and go! What is to happen to the nation next is for others to decide, not them!
It is ironic that someone should be wasting time blaming sanctions for Zimbabwe's poverty and yet has said nothing about the real cause of poverty - corruption. The country has been swindled of $15 billions of diamond revenue and three years since Mugabe admitted this still not one person has been arrested.
Does Wutaunashe agree that Mnangagwa rigged the recent elections?
Many Zimbabweans approved sanctions before independence as a means to force Smith to accept meaningful change. So what has changed now?
I do agree with the pastor who asked why Zimbabweans in the diaspora are being asked to sign a petition to have the sanctions on the Zanu PF regime lifted when the same regime has just denied 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote!
"As I speak to you now there are changes that are happening in the Zimpapers stable. You are going to see people like Jorum Gumbo and Tichaona Zindoga elevated. These people are supported by Amai (Monica) Mutsvangwa. The plot is that they will twist the editorial policy to create a narrative that gives acres of space to a transitional authority and bit by bit close out the presidential activities done by the President. So it's a well thought out plan that Chris is pushing to advance himself to become the President one day.”
As for “bit by bit closing out the presidential activities done by the President” no one is doing a better job of that than Mnangagwa himself! The man has blundered from pillar to post and in his year in office has not done anything of note. The man is corrupt, incompetent and a ruthless tyrant and, like all brain-dead tyrants, is blissfully unaware of his own serious shortcomings and sees himself as a great leader with great insight, God’s gift to Zimbabwe.
In short, he is just an arrogant fool masquerading as a genius. Intellectually Mnangagwa is nothing more than Hans Christian Andersen’s Emperor in the tale "The Emperor's New Clothes”.
Yes, the country needs a transition authority to take it out of this nightmare. If that new authority is going to be led by the likes of Chris Mutsvangwa then nothing will change because we would have removed one idiot only to replace him with another.
Zimbabwe needs to think outside the box and stop recycling deadwood.
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ActionAid Zimbabwe Head of Programmes and Policy Toendepi Kamusewu said the major areas of concern where little has been done by politicians to fulfil their electoral promises is gender and health service delivery.
Does this mean that Action Aid has accepted the recent election results as fait accompli because that is exactly what Zanu PF thugs would want us to do.
Zanu PF rigged the 30 July elections the regime must step down because it is illegitimate. The idea of sweeping the blatant vote rigging under the carpet is a foolish one, we have done this for the last 38 years and it has not worked. It is insane to keep trying it hoping for different result.
Zanu PF thugs are the nation's worst curse but a close second has to be these civic groups with their wishy-washy programmes that undermine the nation's fight for meaningful democratic change under the pretext they programmes are bring about the democratic changes the nation is dying for.
We have an illegitimate government and someone is wittering about "a motion to introduce an electoral promises tracking system meant to ensure that they deliver on the pledges". How foolish is that!!!!!
Zimbabwe’s annual rate of inflation increased by 10,16 percentage points to 31,01 percent in the month of November from 20.85 percent in October as speculative price increases took their toll on the economy.
Zimbabwe's unemployment rate is a dizzying 90%, 75% of the people are living on US$1.00 a day or less, etc. These are danger warning signs the nation has ignored for years but at its own peril. The economic situation has taken a turn for the worse in the last four months and there is nothing to suggest things are going to get better.
President Mnangagwa and his cronies have failed to come up with even one proposal to suggest the regime realizes the seriousness of the country's problem. All the nation heard throughout the conference in Esigodini was the usual platitude and empty promises.
The country is now in real danger of serious social unrest with people protesting the worsen economic situation.
@ Eddie Cross
“In addition to the above factors, the introduction of exchange control and the way it is being administered by the Reserve Bank is having the following effect on local markets and on the productive sector:
1. The use of the artificial exchange rate of 1:1 is taking real value from the foreign earnings of exporters and replacing it with RTGS dollars valued by markets at 3.5 to one. On average this is depreciating the overall earnings of the export sector by more than half. The result is that production levels of all export industries is in decline and gold production is again going back into the informal market where no exchange control influence exists. Official intake of gold has declined by 40 per cent, tobacco plantings are down and major exporters are considering shutting down until the situation corrects itself,” you said.
I am not an economists still if “gold intake has declined 40%, tobacco plantings are down, etc., etc.; this is surely not good news to the nation desperate for economic recovery. Yet you are the one who has heaped praise of this regime’s economic policies these last four months!
The truth is there is no hope of any meaningful economic recovery in Zimbabwe until the country gets the fundamentals right including ending its pariah state status. All your optimism and confidence in Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube was in fact totally unfounded.
This is not the first time you have been hopelessly wrong. Remember the 2008 to 2013 GNU when you and your fellow MDC friends failed to implement even one reform and thus landing us in this mess of Zanu PF blatantly rigging elections we are in to this day!
Zimbabwe will be better off if big mouths like you, Mr Cross, would just shut up! All you have ever done is add to the confusion!
“A caring organization would seek solutions for the ongoing doctor’s strike and the crisis in the health sector in its holistic sense including drug shortages. A governing party would seek to find solutions to the recurring cholera outbreaks,” you said.
What are you wittering about, if MDC had implemented the democratic reforms during the GNU Zimbabwe would not be in this mess! You lot participated in the recent elections without even bothering to demand a verified voters roll.
What democratic changes has MDC delivered in all its 19 years in politics?
“Re-engagement to end isolation, pay debts and arrears and get new funding, besides rebuilding foreign, trade and investment relations will require political legitimacy and stability, and a clear and consistent policy reform agenda,” said the diplomat.
“In this environment, this is not possible, hence we are saying the Zimbabwean government and President Mnangagwa must realise that dialogue and consensus are now a sine qua non for recovery, growth and progress. This can’t be avoided anymore, unless, of course, Zimbabwe is to be allowed to slide backwards into the abyss with disastrous consequences. Leadership is needed to take the country forward. That means putting the national interest above individual and party political considerations.”
This 100% correct. What the visiting Kenyan Judge is failing to understand is that neither Mnangagwa nor Chamisa will ever play a constructive role in defining the roadmap out of the mess Zimbabwe is in. The two and their respective parties are the ones who dragged us into this mess; it is naïve to expect them to know how to get us out.
Zimbabweans need the courage and foresight to confront and confound the demons amongst them. We need to tell both Zanu PF and MDC leaders it is time for them to go. They have over stayed for any good they have done to the nation. They must step down and go! What is to happen to the nation next is for others to decide, not them!
It is ironic that someone should be wasting time blaming sanctions for Zimbabwe's poverty and yet has said nothing about the real cause of poverty - corruption. The country has been swindled of $15 billions of diamond revenue and three years since Mugabe admitted this still not one person has been arrested.
Does Wutaunashe agree that Mnangagwa rigged the recent elections?
Many Zimbabweans approved sanctions before independence as a means to force Smith to accept meaningful change. So what has changed now?
I do agree with the pastor who asked why Zimbabweans in the diaspora are being asked to sign a petition to have the sanctions on the Zanu PF regime lifted when the same regime has just denied 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote!
"As I speak to you now there are changes that are happening in the Zimpapers stable. You are going to see people like Jorum Gumbo and Tichaona Zindoga elevated. These people are supported by Amai (Monica) Mutsvangwa. The plot is that they will twist the editorial policy to create a narrative that gives acres of space to a transitional authority and bit by bit close out the presidential activities done by the President. So it's a well thought out plan that Chris is pushing to advance himself to become the President one day.”
As for “bit by bit closing out the presidential activities done by the President” no one is doing a better job of that than Mnangagwa himself! The man has blundered from pillar to post and in his year in office has not done anything of note. The man is corrupt, incompetent and a ruthless tyrant and, like all brain-dead tyrants, is blissfully unaware of his own serious shortcomings and sees himself as a great leader with great insight, God’s gift to Zimbabwe.
In short, he is just an arrogant fool masquerading as a genius. Intellectually Mnangagwa is nothing more than Hans Christian Andersen’s Emperor in the tale "The Emperor's New Clothes”.
Yes, the country needs a transition authority to take it out of this nightmare. If that new authority is going to be led by the likes of Chris Mutsvangwa then nothing will change because we would have removed one idiot only to replace him with another.
Zimbabwe needs to think outside the box and stop recycling deadwood.
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