“Crisis management is not solved in one day. There is no magic formula in State recovery… it is a process that HE Mnangagwa is leading in promoting important reforms in Zimbabwe that will undoubtedly save it from this "big debt”,” said Ronny Musan, Zimbabwe's honorary consul in Israel, in a interview with News Day.
At least our honorary consul acknowledged there is a crisis in Zimbabwe unlike our own leaders who are in denial. They stubbornly maintain there is no crisis, even with the national economy in total meltdown, unemployment a nauseating 90% and 34% of our people living in “extreme poverty”, according to a 2019 WB report. The number living in extreme poverty has surged upward since the corona virus outbreak.
Indeed, Mnangagwa, his Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube and the rest of the regime are adamant Zimbabwe is on course to become a middle income nation by 2030, vision 2030.
To solve Zimbabwe’s crisis one must acknowledge that this is a man-made crisis and per se need competent man to solve it; a fact Consul Musan touched on in his next remark.
“Zimbabwe is a natural power! It has natural resources that can buy Israel, it has fertile ground that even if you plant a broom stick you will get a fruit tree,” he said.
“So you have to manage the crisis properly, promote agricultural development and export agricultural products that can feed European countries, give investors the security they need in order for them to invest foreign currency here, to develop the value of the assessment of natural resources in the right way, to avoid smuggling channels and to invest in education and training in the fields of technology and more."
Yes, once upon a time Zimbabwe did produce enough agricultural produce to feed her own people, be the breadbasket of the region and earned a fortune selling such cash crops as tobacco. Not any more.
Zanu PF seized the farms from the whites to give them to party loyalists, mainly, who only saw it as one more opportunity to loot and enrich themselves. Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector collapsed and, since it was the country economic engine, took with it rest of the economy.
So Zimbabweans now holds the dubious honour of starving in a land so fertile “even if you plant a broom stick you will get a fruit tree”! Of course, this is a damning testimonial to Zanu PF leaders’ blundering incompetence.
Zimbabwe is stuck, 40 years and counting, with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship because the party rigs elections. Zanu PF has ridden roughshod over the people’s freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country.
Zimbabwe is a Banana Republic, a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs who rig elections to stay in power. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state there will be no meaningful economic recovery because no investor wants to do business in a pariah state.
“Are there any Israeli investors willing to invest in Zimbabwe?” asked News Day.
“I am happy to say that investors in Israel are waiting to receive our investment plans, review them and start investing in Zimbabwe,” came the reply.
Half expected the Honorary Consul to talk about Nikuv! Many Zimbabweans will remember Nikuv, the Israel vote rigging specialists, who helped Zanu PF rig the 2013 elections and were paid a cool US$ 10 million!
Mnangagwa has stubbornly refused to implement even one token democratic reform and is determined to rig the 2023 elections. No doubt, he must be considering re-engaging Nikuv, assuming the latter ever left!
“I make it clear to anyone who addresses me unequivocally that I am not here to take advantage of my position to plunder Zimbabwe….. but to help and leverage what belongs to Zimbabwe!” remarked Zimbabwe’s honorary consul to Israel.
If you were taking advantage of your position to plunder Zimbabwe, would you admit it? By the same token, if you are a Nikuv employee, would never ever admit that either!
“HE Mnangagwa is leading in promoting important reforms in Zimbabwe that will undoubtedly save it from this "big debt”!” Spare us the chutzpah!
Mnangagwa is corrupt, incompetent and murderous tyrant who will never ever implement any meaningful democratic reforms to jeopardise Zanu PF’s dictatorial powers. Never ever!
And as long as Zanu PF remains in power, Zimbabwe will remain a pariah state stuck in this hell-on-earth the regime has landed us in.
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"I am not here to plunder Zimbabwe!"
If you were here to plunder Zimbabwe, you would never admit it!
You are telling us Mnangagwa is solving Zimbabwe's economic and political crisis. "HE Mnangagwa is leading in promoting important reforms in Zimbabwe," you say. Well that is a damn lie, and you know it!
What reforms did Mnangagwa implement to ensure free, fair and credible July 2018 elections? He has not implemented any reforms since and has no intention of implementing any before the 2023 elections.
No doubt Mnangagwa is planning to engage the services of Nikuv, the vote rigging Israel specialist, to help him win the 2023 elections.
The BGHES on the Zambezi River, is located 47 km downstream of the Victoria Falls.
A consortium comprising China's Power Construction Corporation and General Electric, of the USA, has been selected to develop the US$4 billion project.
Under the current schedule, it is anticipated that the BGHES scheme will comprise a 175-m-high dam wall and two 1 200mW power plants on either side of the river. It would also include a substation, transmission, township and road infrastructure and could begin producing electricity from the second half of 2028 onwards.
Zanu PF was given the Batoka Gorge feasibility studies way back in 1980 and so it has taken 48 years before the project finally come to fruition. How many billions of dollars per annum did the nation lose in those 48 years?
The country has been importing power for the 40 out of the 48 years at a cost of US$1 billion per year, at least. Zimbabwe has had load shedding for donkeys, 30 years at an average cost of US$2 billion in lost production. And so the country has lost US$ 100 billion in electricity power loses alone!
The blundering incompetence with which this Zanu PF government has handled the nation’s energy needs epitomises the blundering incompetence the regime has handled the corona virus and many other key issues. It is little wonder Zimbabwe’s economy is in total ruins!
Israel is a country of contradictions and an enigma in that it has fought fiercely to establish itself as a healthy and thriving democracy and yet it not flinched to deny other people their freedoms and rights if there is profit to be made.
The Israeli government was warned about Nikuv’s obnoxious activities, helping Zanu PF rig the elections, in Zimbabwe and regime did not lift a finger to stop it. Some people believe 2013 elections not the first or last time Nikuv had worked for Zanu PF.
The Israelis were the only democratic nation that continued to work with South Africa’s Apartheid Regime right up to the bitter end.
Of course Mr Ronny Musan knows that Mnangagwa is a corrupt, incompetent and murderous tyrant and that as long as the country remains a pariah state there is no hope of any meaningful recovery. He is showering the tyrant with praise and assurance of ending the crisis knowing very well that Zanu PF dragging the nation deeper and deeper into the abyss.
Musan knows a corrupt and chaotic Zimbabwe is rape fruit ready for the picking for unscrupulous operators like him and his Nikuv countrymen. "I am not here to plunder Zimbabwe!” Yeah right!
With smooth operatives like Nikuv in his corner, Mnangagwa has some of the most sophisticate vote rigging dirty trick in his tool box. Our fight for free, fair and credible elections is not just against Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies but also against powerful nations like China and Israel who are determined to keep Zanu PF in power - they are paid well to do it!
@ Koni
“Trusting elections to solve Zimbabwean problems have proved to be a mammoth task and a shear waste of time and resources as the ruling party has always declared itself the winner but still failing to solve the economic jig saw. It also has no any intentions to surrendering power on a silver platter at all costs to the opposition.
“The truth remains that people have lost trust in Zimbabwe's elections.
“Patrick Chinamasa already declared that Zanu PF has bagged the 2023 election and its a deal done. So what will be the purpose of going for elections? Will Zanu PF surrender power in the event that it has lost to MDC-Alliance?
“Looking through my political lenses the opposition must be reminded that Zanu PF without the army is like a shell. Zimbabwe is a military state and nearly 90% of state and public institutions are staffed by military intelligence. The question we should be asking is on how to dismantle and break apart the system and the military chains holding back the people's success and freedom so that it becomes user friendly.”
You are barking up the wrong tree, as usual!
Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC banded mongooses had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms which, implemented, would have stopped Zanu PF rigging the elections. The mongooses failed to implement even one token reform in five years. It was not the army that stopped the mongooses.
Mugabe bribed the mongooses with the trappings of high office and, with their snouts in the feeding trough, they forgot about the reforms.
It is disappointing that even now with the benefit of hindsight you are still failing to understand what the 2008 to 2013 GNU was about much less that MDC leaders are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent. It was the naive and gullible voters like you who elected the banded mongooses and not Zanu PF or the army.
Yes, Mnangagwa and his cronies have benefited from having the banded mongooses as their political opponents. And unless the people of Zimbabwe snap out of their sloth-like mental slumber, Zanu PF will rig the 2023 elections and the banded mongooses will participate giving the regime legitimacy.
“Progressive people should sit down and talk about poor governance, state capture, corruption and unemployed citizens in the country!” Yeah right!
What we need is competent and quality opposition!
PROFESSOR of World Politics at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, Stephen Chan, says the international community will continue to show a lack of interest in Zimbabwe until Zanu-PF and the opposition get their act together.
However, the respected academic also observed in an exclusive interview with the Daily News yesterday that unless there were dramatic changes in the local body politic, there was little prospect of the ruling party and the opposition "finding each other" in 2021, to end the country's decades-long political and economic challenges.
Whatever respect Professor Stephen Chan command in the past it has all long evaporated!
Anyone of substance who observed Zimbabwe’s 2018 elections dismissed the whole process as a farce.
“The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner. The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability,” stated the EU Observer Mission final report.
“As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards.”
In short, Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies do not have the mandate to rule Zimbabwe, they are illegitimate. So why would the EU and the rest of the international community be hankering for an illegitimate regime and the equally corrupt and incompetent opposition to find each other.
Zanu PF and MDC found each other during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and that accomplish nothing of note. Why would the world want the two form another GNU?
@ Mwembe
“Zanu must deliver they should not seek any help from anyone noway that will be a stupid mistake by the opposition. In 2009 they helped zanu revive the economy that was enough .If zanu fails as they are doing they must go.”
You are as thick as they come!
Zanu PF has failed and the people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb these last 20 years electing MDC leaders into power to deliver the democratic changes necessary to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections so people can finally vote the regime out of office.
The primary purpose of the 2008 to 2013 GNU was for MDC to implement the democratic reform and NOT help “revive the economy”.
MDC has not implemented even one reform and the party is going to participate in the coming 2023 elections. How will that help make Zanu PF go?
Zanu PF dragged the nation into this hell-on-earth we find ourselves in still, it is the corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders and their myopic and foolish supporters who are keeping us here!
@ Ken Choga
The solution is for ordinary Zimbabweans to wake up to the reality that MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent, they have failed to implement even one democratic reform and will never implement any.
The people must take time out to understand what constitute free, fair and credible elections this will point to the democratic reforms needed to end the curse of rigged elections. This is a lot more than the usual parroted slogans but it is not rocket science either.
The people can then demand the implementation of the democratic reforms to ensure elections are free, fair and credible; on this they must stand firm and never ever compromise.
Nothing epitomises Zanu PF’s blundering incompetence more than the way the regime has turned the breadbasket of the region into the basket case of a failed regime. The agricultural sector used contributed billions of dollars towards the country’s GDP and billions in foreign currency from export of tobacco, flowers, beef and other produce.
Today the Zanu PF is pours billions of dollars every year in command agriculture and other policies meant to kick-start the all but collapsed farming sector. The schemes have become just another opportunity for the ruling elite and their cronies to loot.
“So Zimbabweans now holds the dubious honour of starving in a land so fertile “even if you plant a broom stick you will get a fruit tree”! Of course, this is a damning testimonial to Zanu PF leaders’ blundering incompetence.”
If the country is so fertile that one can plant a broom stick and get a fruit tree then that really speaks volumes of the blundering incompetence the Zanu PF leaders. It is foolish to expect such failed leaders to revive the economy, especially after 40 years in power.
Of course, what Zimbabwe needs is the opportunity for a free, fair and credible elections. And it is most frustrating that Ronny Musan and his fellow Israel country men are the ones who have been frustrating all our efforts to have free elections.
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