Mujuru's call on the diaspora to return home shows she has no clue

Vice President Joyce Mujuru's call on all Zimbabwean in the diaspora to return to Zimbabwe to help build the nation shows that she really does not a clue what is wrong in Zimbabwe much less what should be done to put things right.

"The economy may not be moving in the direction that some of us would have want-ed but we are there to work for the people," said VP Mujuru.

After 34 years misrule and the national economy now in terminal decline the regime is finally acknowledging that the economy is in trouble. But instead of blaming them-selves for the economic mess the regime, true to its nature, is picking on others; this time it is the Zimbabweans in the diaspora.

She wants all Zimbabweans who have left the country to return back home. "I hope our children in the Diaspora will hear this message that they must not forget that Zimbabwe will always be Zimbabwe, it will always be home that we should always work to build. They must come and work to build the country," she argued. Whilst it is true that many Zimbabweans have left the country it should be stated that it was the economic collapsed, amongst other things that forced them to leave. If the economic prospect were to improved many Zimbabweans would happily return but not whilst the economy remains in the doldrums with everything sign of getting worse.

It is not the shortage of skilled manpower that is behind Zimbabwe's economic melt-down. With unemployment seating at a nauseating 85% plus there is no doubt there will be unemployed/under employed skilled individual still in Zimbabwe across the entire skills spectrum.

The only other reason why the regime is now obsessed about getting the diasporans back is the regime's hope that the returnees will bring back sacks of cash to fill the ZimAsset begging bowl and fill the gaping hole left by foreign investors who have shied away from the country because of its ridiculous indigenisation laws.

Even if there were any Zimbabweans with money to invest, many people have been sending money back home to help their relative staying alive when they should have been saving; they will know that until the main causes of the country's economic meltdown are addressed no business will ever succeed in Zimbabwe.

The root causes of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown are the corruption and looting on the one hand and the failure to restore confidence in the donor and investors alike that Zimbabwe will uphold property rights and rule of law. The regime has failed to address any of the two problems because neither could be solved without disman-tling the party' political patronage system.

Mugabe has been flouting his wealth by holding $1 million birthday party, $ 5 million wedding for a daughter held in his $20 million columned hall Blue Roof mansion. Mai Mujuru reportedly has a fortune worth $ 3 billion. All these fortunes were made from corruption and looting, of course. How can Mugabe or Mujuru tell anyone else to stop corruption when all they will be doing is playing catch-up with them!

Here is a woman who has waited for decades to be president and whose heart and mind is now set for nothing else. The very idea that her assuming the office of the presidency is contingent on her being the most competent candidate to get the na-tion out of this economic and political mess and that it is the people of Zimbabwe who must decide that in a free, fair and credible elections is completely alien to her. Well alien or not the economic meltdown will continue until the country holds fresh free elections.

If Mai Mujuru is banking of millions of diaspora returnees bring sack loads of cash to bail this Zanu PF dictatorship then that is one dream that will never come to pass.

Conclusion
As long as Zanu PF remains in power the economic meltdown will only get worse. The party rigged the 2013 elections to retain power but unless the party can rig eco-nomic recovery too then they cannot stay in power.

Zanu PF must regime now so than an interim administration can be appointed to im-plement the democratic reforms in preparation for fresh free, fair and credible elec-tions. That is the only way out of this mess!