Opinion / Columnist
Bond notes are what the doc ordered, Cdes
09 Dec 2016 at 06:30hrs | Views
Dear Cabinet and Politburo members
COMRADES, I am so elated that my ideas have proved to be the magic that this economy was missing for some time now. That is what experience does. I gave you an opportunity to try your bookish economics and you will all agree with me that they did not work.
That is when I stepped in with my pragmatic solutions… I ordered that we introduce a surrogate currency, the Bond Note, and that we restrict the importation of goods that can be produced locally.
I notice that most of you never really took me seriously on the bond note idea, which explains why it took more than six months for the plan to be implemented.
You dragged your feet because you were sceptical that this would work.
You started by implementing my import management model, which you introduced via the now highly contentious Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016, and it was the Open Sesame that the economy was waiting for.
Suddenly our industries are working again. Capacity utilisation is rising so fast that in a couple of months, it could reach 100 percent. Lost jobs are being restored and new ones created. The economy is back in full swing.
When the bond notes were finally introduced last week —after several months of needless hesitation — the response was overwhelming. There were those who claimed to be representing the people — even going to the courts on their behalf — who said the people did not want the bond notes, I wonder which people they were talking about because since their introduction, the very same people have been scrambling for these bond notes and the currency has traded very well in the first 10 days… remaining one of the strongest on the Africa continent.
I am told that by the end of last week, queues at banks had virtually disappeared and all those hours and hours that our people were wasting in queues are now being channelled towards productive use.
This is what experience does. I have been around for sometime hence I now know exactly what this economy needs.
With the economy back on the rails, and the cash shortages solved once and for all, all that we are left to do is to pray hard that we get good rains this season so that we get a bumper harvest and, that way, all our problems would be gone. With our problems gone, whatever our Anglo-Saxon detractors may try, they will not succeed in rocking the boat.
With our people happy again, come 2018, we will be cruising to yet another resounding electoral victory.
Nothing can stop us now. Never, ever!
Meanwhile, Cdes, my time in Cuba last week for Brother Fidel's funeral gave me an opportunity to see for myself what it really is like to be loved by your own people. I had never seen such an outpouring of grief… tens of millions of Cubans poured out into the streets to mourn their departed leader.
It just goes to confirm the truth that the West has always tried to hide for generations … that Brother Fidel was the best leader the world has ever had.
When one attends such events, they cannot help avoid this jealousy-like feeling … and end up wondering what their own funeral would be like. Events like these give the living an opportunity to renew their zeal to do good for their people so that they will also be respected like this.
This is exactly what we are doing as the party and the leadership … going out of our way to do the best for our people and I am very happy that our people are appreciative of our endeavours.
We should keep up the hard and good works.
Kindest Regards
Yours Sincerely
ME
… AND CZ'S NOTEBOOK
Silly
Dear reader. Please read this: "In enforcing traffic laws, the police are guided by the laws, rules and regulations. The police don't compel motorists to pay fines on the spot. Only traffic offenders who have committed an offence and who have admitted doing so and are willing to pay spot fines have an option to pay the fine on spot. For the record, the police don't compel motorists to pay spot fines, but motorists opt to pay fines freely and voluntarily without any form of pressure having been exerted on them."
This was Police Commissioner General, Augustine Chihuri in court papers filed in response to a court action brought about by Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) challenging the constitutionality of spot fines.
Certainly, when you have a whole police chief being so economical with the truth, one then is left wondering what sort of laws are being enforced by our officers.
Daylight robbery is being committed on the ubiquitous police traffic check points and the truth of the matter is that this government is now being funded from proceeds of this blatantly criminal act.
Only this week, out-going High Court judge, Justice November Mtshiya, bemoaned the wanton disregard of court orders in this country, and the police top the list of those that are always in wilful defiance of such orders.
Sorry
We read with grim sadness news that musician Dickson "Cde Chinx" Chingaira is a bit off colour. He has our sincere prayers.
We were really touched that the polygamist and father of many children, who is one of the war veterans who pocketed the hefty ZW$50 000 a few years ago, is finding it hard to provide for his clan. "I have a lot of mouths to feed and right now I do not have any peace of mind. I have to wonder where my children and grandchildren will get their next meal. It is really killing me. I'm appealing to anyone out there who can help me in this regard. As soon as I'm fit I will be back at work," he was quoted as saying.
This is really a very sad story.
In the 1980s, Cde Chinx was such a big name in the musical circles that musicians such as Simon Chimbetu (Marxist Brothers), Andy Brown and others would fight to become curtain-raisers at his shows. This is the same man who is virtually a destitute today and has children who cannot provide for their own children.
Dr CZ's fellow columnist at America's Chicago Sun-Tribune, Ann Landers, always had this piece of advice to share: "It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings."
American author and motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar had this to share: "The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them."
Dangerous tribalism!
Last week, one of Dr CZ's fans posted the following on his Facebook wall.
It is entitled "White Zimbabweans and pronunciations".
"I have observed something over the years that I now find quite interesting. I am hoping you can share your views on the subject. Earlier today I was listening to the radio and a white Zimbabwean was conducting a quiz. He was pronouncing Masvingo as Masingo and many other words were pronounced incorrectly. I wondered if this would be tolerable in the United Kingdom, for example. Imagine a fourth generation immigrant unable to pronounce places like Birmingham or Gloucestershire. Would such a person be allowed to take on a role on the national broadcaster? The Brits would go crazy. Other words like Zambezi are pronounced Zambizi, Matabeleland is Matibililand. Some foolish blacks find this cute and imitate these incorrect pronunciations. I often wonder what is behind this failure to pronounce these words. Given that many of these same people are fluent in foreign languages like French I find it difficult to imagine it is because they find these words are impossible to pronounce correctly. Could it be that they do not know? Or maybe is it cultural arrogance? You will note how blacks work very hard to pronounce English words correctly. This is not an opportunity for racist comments please, I am very sincere in this enquiry. Hopefully some white Zimbos can give their take."
Like Dr CZ has said, this is something that was just brought to his attention and therefore Yours Truly has no comment to add save to say there can be no worse tribalism than this!
cznotebook@yahoo.co.uk
COMRADES, I am so elated that my ideas have proved to be the magic that this economy was missing for some time now. That is what experience does. I gave you an opportunity to try your bookish economics and you will all agree with me that they did not work.
That is when I stepped in with my pragmatic solutions… I ordered that we introduce a surrogate currency, the Bond Note, and that we restrict the importation of goods that can be produced locally.
I notice that most of you never really took me seriously on the bond note idea, which explains why it took more than six months for the plan to be implemented.
You dragged your feet because you were sceptical that this would work.
You started by implementing my import management model, which you introduced via the now highly contentious Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016, and it was the Open Sesame that the economy was waiting for.
Suddenly our industries are working again. Capacity utilisation is rising so fast that in a couple of months, it could reach 100 percent. Lost jobs are being restored and new ones created. The economy is back in full swing.
When the bond notes were finally introduced last week —after several months of needless hesitation — the response was overwhelming. There were those who claimed to be representing the people — even going to the courts on their behalf — who said the people did not want the bond notes, I wonder which people they were talking about because since their introduction, the very same people have been scrambling for these bond notes and the currency has traded very well in the first 10 days… remaining one of the strongest on the Africa continent.
I am told that by the end of last week, queues at banks had virtually disappeared and all those hours and hours that our people were wasting in queues are now being channelled towards productive use.
This is what experience does. I have been around for sometime hence I now know exactly what this economy needs.
With the economy back on the rails, and the cash shortages solved once and for all, all that we are left to do is to pray hard that we get good rains this season so that we get a bumper harvest and, that way, all our problems would be gone. With our problems gone, whatever our Anglo-Saxon detractors may try, they will not succeed in rocking the boat.
With our people happy again, come 2018, we will be cruising to yet another resounding electoral victory.
Nothing can stop us now. Never, ever!
Meanwhile, Cdes, my time in Cuba last week for Brother Fidel's funeral gave me an opportunity to see for myself what it really is like to be loved by your own people. I had never seen such an outpouring of grief… tens of millions of Cubans poured out into the streets to mourn their departed leader.
It just goes to confirm the truth that the West has always tried to hide for generations … that Brother Fidel was the best leader the world has ever had.
When one attends such events, they cannot help avoid this jealousy-like feeling … and end up wondering what their own funeral would be like. Events like these give the living an opportunity to renew their zeal to do good for their people so that they will also be respected like this.
This is exactly what we are doing as the party and the leadership … going out of our way to do the best for our people and I am very happy that our people are appreciative of our endeavours.
We should keep up the hard and good works.
Yours Sincerely
ME
… AND CZ'S NOTEBOOK
Silly
Dear reader. Please read this: "In enforcing traffic laws, the police are guided by the laws, rules and regulations. The police don't compel motorists to pay fines on the spot. Only traffic offenders who have committed an offence and who have admitted doing so and are willing to pay spot fines have an option to pay the fine on spot. For the record, the police don't compel motorists to pay spot fines, but motorists opt to pay fines freely and voluntarily without any form of pressure having been exerted on them."
This was Police Commissioner General, Augustine Chihuri in court papers filed in response to a court action brought about by Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) challenging the constitutionality of spot fines.
Certainly, when you have a whole police chief being so economical with the truth, one then is left wondering what sort of laws are being enforced by our officers.
Daylight robbery is being committed on the ubiquitous police traffic check points and the truth of the matter is that this government is now being funded from proceeds of this blatantly criminal act.
Only this week, out-going High Court judge, Justice November Mtshiya, bemoaned the wanton disregard of court orders in this country, and the police top the list of those that are always in wilful defiance of such orders.
Sorry
We read with grim sadness news that musician Dickson "Cde Chinx" Chingaira is a bit off colour. He has our sincere prayers.
We were really touched that the polygamist and father of many children, who is one of the war veterans who pocketed the hefty ZW$50 000 a few years ago, is finding it hard to provide for his clan. "I have a lot of mouths to feed and right now I do not have any peace of mind. I have to wonder where my children and grandchildren will get their next meal. It is really killing me. I'm appealing to anyone out there who can help me in this regard. As soon as I'm fit I will be back at work," he was quoted as saying.
This is really a very sad story.
In the 1980s, Cde Chinx was such a big name in the musical circles that musicians such as Simon Chimbetu (Marxist Brothers), Andy Brown and others would fight to become curtain-raisers at his shows. This is the same man who is virtually a destitute today and has children who cannot provide for their own children.
Dr CZ's fellow columnist at America's Chicago Sun-Tribune, Ann Landers, always had this piece of advice to share: "It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings."
American author and motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar had this to share: "The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them."
Dangerous tribalism!
Last week, one of Dr CZ's fans posted the following on his Facebook wall.
It is entitled "White Zimbabweans and pronunciations".
"I have observed something over the years that I now find quite interesting. I am hoping you can share your views on the subject. Earlier today I was listening to the radio and a white Zimbabwean was conducting a quiz. He was pronouncing Masvingo as Masingo and many other words were pronounced incorrectly. I wondered if this would be tolerable in the United Kingdom, for example. Imagine a fourth generation immigrant unable to pronounce places like Birmingham or Gloucestershire. Would such a person be allowed to take on a role on the national broadcaster? The Brits would go crazy. Other words like Zambezi are pronounced Zambizi, Matabeleland is Matibililand. Some foolish blacks find this cute and imitate these incorrect pronunciations. I often wonder what is behind this failure to pronounce these words. Given that many of these same people are fluent in foreign languages like French I find it difficult to imagine it is because they find these words are impossible to pronounce correctly. Could it be that they do not know? Or maybe is it cultural arrogance? You will note how blacks work very hard to pronounce English words correctly. This is not an opportunity for racist comments please, I am very sincere in this enquiry. Hopefully some white Zimbos can give their take."
Like Dr CZ has said, this is something that was just brought to his attention and therefore Yours Truly has no comment to add save to say there can be no worse tribalism than this!
cznotebook@yahoo.co.uk
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