@ Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube
“Zimbabwe's economy grew by 8.3% in 2025, while foreign direct investment increased from US$597 million in 2024 to US$965 million in 2025. The tourism sector alone attracted more than US$1 billion in investments during the NDS 2021–2025 period and the momentum is continuing.
As such, tourism investment increased from approximately US$190.5 million in 2024 to US$194.5 million in 2025, and in the first half of 2026 alone, Zimbabwe recorded approximately US$132 million in tourism investments.
In the first quarter of 2026, tourism investment increased by an extraordinary 438 percent. This remarkable progress is an affirmation of the able and capable leadership of President ED Mnangagwa.”
Zimbabwe is a failed state in which the few filthy rich are getting richer and richer whilst the filthy poor are getting poorer and poorer and their numbers are growing exponentially.
Minister Ncube talks of the economy growing by 8.3%, the only growth many people can testify of is in the mining sector. The number of small-scale miners, “makorokoza” as they are known locally, has increased by leaps and bounds (for many it is either one becomes a mukorokoza, a street vendor or leave the country). The other growth in the mining sector is at the top end by mainly Chinese. Mountains sides are disappearing and shipped out Beira in convoys of heavy duty lorries.
It is laughable that Finance Minister should be wittering about the booming mining sector when most of the mineral wealth extracted is not declared as the Al Jazeera Gold Mafia documentary revealed. 80% of the US$2 billion per year gold extraction was being smuggled, the documentary revealed.
The Al Jazeera documentary came out in 2023 and to date none on the those involved in the smuggling have been arrested. For the record Mnangagwa, Chiwenga and many other Zanu PF leaders were named in the documentary.
When those in the highest offices in the land are themselves the Mafia Godfathers, you have state capture, the Mafia is the State and the State is the Mafia. It is near impossible to uproot corruption!
Our hospitals have no medicines and schools have no teachers because many have left to escape the slave wages. Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has no money to allocate to health and education and yet he knows that Dr Kudakwashe Tagwirei squandered a staggering US$40 million on his son’s wedding alone. Dr Tagwirei is one of the filthy rich few whose wealth says one thing and tax return says the opposite; the Ministers knows that and has never dared to investigate. UNTOUCHABLE!
“In the first quarter of 2026, tourism investment increased by an extraordinary 438 percent.” How so?
Last week, one MPs announced in parliament that it took him 15 hours to drive 364 km from Bulawayo to Hwange. How is it possible that tourism is booming regardless of the reality the tourists cannot get to their destinations because of the sorry state of Zimbabwe’s roads!
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