“The Minister of Energy and Power Development Advocate Fortune Chasi has urged Zimbabweans to consider using bicycles and motorbikes given the dire fuel shortages hitting the country,” reported Bulawayo 24.
“Chasi said developed countries like the United Kingdom and Holland are already using bicycles. The Minister of Energy and Power Development Advocate Fortune Chasi has urged Zimbabweans to consider using bicycles and motorbikes given the dire fuel shortages hitting the country.
“Chasi said developed countries like the United Kingdom and Holland are already using bicycles.”
“Chasi said developed countries like the United Kingdom and Holland are already using bicycles. The Minister of Energy and Power Development Advocate Fortune Chasi has urged Zimbabweans to consider using bicycles and motorbikes given the dire fuel shortages hitting the country.
“Chasi said developed countries like the United Kingdom and Holland are already using bicycles.”
Chasi has been back in government only a few weeks and already he is talking with the same Zanu PF arrogance and indifference to the long-suffering people of Zimbabwe. He promised to solve Zimbabwe’s crippling energy and power crisis whose solution is staring him in the face – end the pariah state which is blocking everything.
He took delivery of his ultra-modern ministerial limo, the generous salary and allowances and loads and loads of the other gravy train benefits. He will be fighting to retain the Zanu PF dictatorship and the pariah state. The dictatorship is the sacred cow that must be left untouched and to alleviate the effects of the worsening economic meltdown he is suggesting the people buy bicycles and motorbikes! The chic arrogance of tyrants who know they are not democratically accountable to those they so dismissively abuse!
Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year’s elections to make sure the party remains in power, period. If the party delivered any economic recovery, that is a bonus, as far as the regime is concerned.
Zimbabwe’s economic situation is dire, unemployment has soared to dizzying heights of 90%, ¾ of the population are living in abject poverty, etc. The situation cannot be allowed to continue. Zanu PF must be forced to step down and the nation finally allowed to end this curse of rigged elections and pariah state.
Minister Chasi, we do not want your bicycles; we want you and your fellow Zanu PF thugs to go. And go you will! The prospect of Zanu PF remaining in office until 2023 is unthinkable!
If Zanu PF is in power in 2023 the party will rig those elections and thus extend the regime’s corrupt and tyrannical rule. We must not allow that to happen!
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@ Mavaza
“Zimbabwe needs a Major reshuffle as soon as now to get it moving again. In the inauguration speech the previous year ED had pledged to hit the ground running. The team has been assembled for the running but their legs are not reaching the ground. The ground is available the running has started but unfortunately you can not see the speed and the direction. At least for now. very few ministers can justify their existence. A major reshuffle is needed in order to get our economic woes sorted,” you say.
You will not want to speak truth to power and so you call for cabinet reshuffle because you lack the guts to tell Mnangagwa that he has failed and should go. We are in this mess because for the last 39 years people like you would not accept that Mugabe and now Mnangagwa and their Zanu PF thugs have failed.
Mnangagwa can carryout another cabinet reshuffle but as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs the country’s economic meltdown will only get worse!
Minister Chasi said he was going to get the money crooks like Wicknell looted from ZESA but he already dropped that hot potato. Someone told him in no uncertain terms that if he opened that Pandora's Box it will not only be Wicknell who will be in Chikurumbi but many other Zanu PF bigwigs - Wicknell will see to it that he has company. The same day Chasi received his ministerial limo and got the message - enjoy you stay on the gravy train and shut up!
So instead of recovering the billions of dollars being looted in the energy and power sectors every month Minister Chasi is now taking up petty project like telling the poor how to spend the meagre earnings! It is amazing how quickly some people change as soon as they step into the gravy train. "Kungo piwavhara muromo, Chasi yava bofu, mbeveve nematsi!"
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Zimbabwe faces deep macroeconomic imbalances. After a period of relative macroeconomic stability when hyperinflation was broken in 2008 with the move to full dollarization, the fiscal situation has deteriorated sharply since 2015. Large fiscal deficits during 2016–18, financed by the issuance of quasi-currency instruments nominally at par to the U.S. dollar, built up pressure in the dollarized economy. The fragile equilibrium was maintained by exchange controls and other restrictions on access to foreign exchange (FX)
IMF has refused to bankroll Zimbabwe’s voodoo economic policies after the second Economic Structural Adjustment Programme failed to revive the country’s economy. Professor Mthuli Ncube was cocksure he was going to get IMF and WB to revive its credit line, nine months later it is clear that is not going to happen.
Zimbabwe must deal with corruption and rigged elections decisively and until that is done nothing will change!
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, has called on government to apologise for the post-independence atrocities that claimed the lives of more than 20 000 people in the western parts of the country.
Chamisa was speaking at the burial of national hero and liberation war stalwart Dumiso Dabengwa in Ntabazinduna, Matabeleland North Saturday.
"You (Dabengwa) were talking about Gukurahundi. We should not shy away from it. Lets talk about it, apologise and make sure that we do what has to be done, to make sure we restore those who lost their lives and also restore those who lost their properties," Chamisa said.
This is just a cuss of political opportunism at its worst! Nelson Chamisa has been on the Zimbabwe political stage for 19 years and ten years ago he was a senior member of the GNU and had the golden opportunity to raise this matter and have it sorted once and once for all. He was too busy playing around with the Nokia mobile phone ring-tones to do anything else. It was only after Chamisa and his MDC friends lost their seats in 2013 that the party has suddenly remember the Gukurahundi genocide!
Zimbabwe is in a serious mess because the country has failed to deal with the multitude of social, economic and political problems timeously and competently. We have had the great misfortune of being ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous Zanu PF thugs. We have had many golden opportunities to remove the thugs from office but have failed to do so because we entrusted this task to corrupt, incompetent opportunists like Nelson Chamisa.
For Zimbabwe to deal with such teething problems as Gukurahundi, worsening economic meltdown, the curse of rigged elections and pariah state, etc., etc. we must first clean up our political system that has allowed Zanu PF thugs and MDC opportunists to occupy political centre stage.
“We don't want a vicious cycle of disputed and contested elections. We need to resolve this by having a raft of comprehensive reforms,” said Chamisa.
“Reforms have to be instituted politically and legislatively, reforms that are aligning our politics to our constitution, reforms that are aligning our circumstances to the dictates and demands of the citizens and those reforms and important.”
Chamisa is now talking about reforms as the way forward and yet when MDC had the golden opportunities to implement the reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU the party failed to get even one reform implemented. Not one!
When people said MDC should not participate in elections without reforms, it was Chamisa and other MDC leaders who dismissed the warnings with contempt. “MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging elections,” said Chamisa.
Yes, Zimbabwe’s politics is a vicious cycle but one which MDC cannot end because it is as much part and parcel of the problem as Zanu PF. MDC has been running with the hare and hunting with the hounds and the day the people wake up to this reality would be the start of breaking the vicious cycle!
"Without dialogue implosion is unavoidable," said Biti.
The only dialogue Chamisa is after is to give him a seat on the gravy train. The blast GNU failed to get even one democratic reform implemented and hence the reason the country is still in this political mess. A new GNU will accomplish nothing other than give Chamisa and a few other MDC leaders seats on the gravy train.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and vote-rigging thugs the country will continue to sink deeper and deeper into the abyss. Zimbabwe’s pariah state status will not change just because Chamisa and one or two MDC leaders have jointed Mnangagwa’s cabinet! Last time that happened the Zanu PF dictatorship was changed in name only, the same will happen again this time.
@ PeterPan
MDC are just as bad as Zanu PF, they had the golden opportunities to implement the democratic reforms and wasted them but you will never hear them admit they failed. They will always claim to hold the key to all the nation's problems!
@ Tjo
After 39 years of making mistakes and you and me paying dearly for it, it is insane to allow the madness to continue.
Eng Chifamba took delivery of a Mercedes Benz S350 worth US$209 202,93 on 10 June 2011 before buying a Toyota Landcruiser (ACO3070) valued at US$175 790 on 23 March 2012. He topped up his top-of-the-range fleet with a Mercedes Benz GL350D (ADY9279) worth US$126 785,22.
On July 12, 2017, Eng Chifamba also got a Toyota Fortuner, which set the parastatal back by US$65 789,55. Curiously, Eng Chifamba’s contract did not put a cap on the value of the vehicle the CEO could buy, which effectively gave him a blank cheque.
Zesa’s group financial controller, Mr Eliab Chikwenhere, also took part in the looting frenzy as he was allocated a Toyota Landcruiser worth US$156 087,47 in 2009, exceeding his contractual limit of US$130 000.
After reading this only a first class idiot would still believe sanctions are the root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown!
@ Zimbabwean
"Nomsa Garikai if ZANU pf doesn't want to entertain anything to do with reforms what does Chamisa do? Take arms? What are your suggestions to the opposition?"
MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform during the GNU not because "Zanu PF did not want to entertain anything to do with reforms"! Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office and the rest is history, as one says.
It is people like you who refuse to face the facts who are the greatest enemy of change. MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent and after 19 years on the political stage and nothing to show for it, the real surprise is the party still has many followers!
@ Sarah
MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent but so too are Zanu PF leaders. The trouble with MDC and Zanu PF members is that you are stuck with one or the other; in a world with all the colours of the rainbow you only see monochrome, black or white.
If either Zanu PF or MDC are in power in 2023 that would be tragic for the nation but I do not expect you Sarah, to understand that! I will not waste time explaining that to you because you have failed to understand anything rational.
@ Gire
MDC members must wake up and smell the coffee. MDC leaders have proven that they are corrupt and incompetent nothing good has ever came out of following leaders blindly like sheep!
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