vThousands of migrants are streaming back into Zimbabwe through the Beitbridge Border Post following South Africa's intensified enforcement of immigration laws, with many returnees arriving exhausted, destitute and uncertain about their future.
Mnangagwa promised to turn Zimbabwe into a upper middle income nation with a GPD per capita of US$6k up from the present US$2k by 2030, the so-called vision 2030. If there was ever an doubt that vision 2030 was a mirage; the doubt has turned into certainty. The hundreds of thousands destitute returning from SA are not only adding to the millions destitute already in the country; the returnees are making the situation in the country worse because many back in Zimbabwe have depended on direct or indirect diaspora help.
The truth is Mnangagwa did not have the intellectual ability to arrest Zimbabwe's economic decline that started soon after independence in 1980. He is a Zanu PF thug and a buffoon with an insatiable hunger for absolute power and the wealth it brings. He knew that he will never deliver vision 2030, he knows that it is just propaganda a smoke screen to hide his dictatorial schemes to secure absolute power at all cost!
Vision 2030 is not the first mirage the nation has been chasing, we have been chasing empty promises all our lives. Mugabe never tired of telling the nation of delivering "Gutsa ruzhinji!" Mass prosperity! It took nearing twenty before the penny finally dropped that he was delivering mass poverty. By the end of this year many people will begin to realise vision 2030 is indeed a mirage!
The tragedy is CAB3 has already been approved by parliament and will soon be signed into law. The nation will be forced to live with the consequences of CAB3 giving Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies even more dictatorial powers consolidating the regime's iron grip onm absolute power. Millions living in abject poverty will sink even deeper into poverty and hopelessness.
The lesson to be learned here is that Zimbabwe's economic and political mess is a man-made problem and as long as Zanu PF retains the dictatorial powers to rig elections and ride roughshod over us the nation will continue to sink into the abyss. We owe it to ourselves and posterity to end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance.
