Opinion / Columnist
The budget by Mthuli Ncube is not pro-poor
24 Nov 2018 at 18:44hrs | Views
Listening to the budget by Mthuli Ncube I find it not for us the poor. It doesn't address the bread and butter issues needed by most people.
The issue of prices has not been articulated to my expectations as a Poorman. I expected that he would introduce maybe a proper currency and do away with the surrogate currency in the form of the bond note. The continual use of the bond note as a currency clearly shows that the government is still a theiving government. They are taking real money from the people at the rate of one is to one whilst us the poor are rated.
The introduction of duty for vehicles in foreign currency is a sure way of making sure the poor remain marginalized. They don't want the poor to own vehicles.
The funding of the security sector with more than one billion dollars is a clear statement that Zimbabwe is a police state. Zanu-PF realizes that for them to survive they need the security sector. Unfortunately the social services sector remain marginalized. I still believe that the minister of finance could have done better for us the people who marched to remove Robert Gabriel Mugabe the last November.
The reduction of the bonus payable to civil servants is actually day light robbery. After having they salaries reduced to less than fifty United States dollars the civil servants have been once again been deprived by these charlatans.
Indeed Mthuli Ncube is the worst minister of finance and I strongly believe Tendai Biti was correct when he said this.
In conclusion, as Zimbabweans let's tighten our belts the journey to Canaan is still a long way but we are almost there.
*henerimadiro@gmail.com*
Henry Madiro is a concerned Zimbabwean citizen who writes about issues affecting the people especially the marginalized poor.
The issue of prices has not been articulated to my expectations as a Poorman. I expected that he would introduce maybe a proper currency and do away with the surrogate currency in the form of the bond note. The continual use of the bond note as a currency clearly shows that the government is still a theiving government. They are taking real money from the people at the rate of one is to one whilst us the poor are rated.
The introduction of duty for vehicles in foreign currency is a sure way of making sure the poor remain marginalized. They don't want the poor to own vehicles.
The funding of the security sector with more than one billion dollars is a clear statement that Zimbabwe is a police state. Zanu-PF realizes that for them to survive they need the security sector. Unfortunately the social services sector remain marginalized. I still believe that the minister of finance could have done better for us the people who marched to remove Robert Gabriel Mugabe the last November.
The reduction of the bonus payable to civil servants is actually day light robbery. After having they salaries reduced to less than fifty United States dollars the civil servants have been once again been deprived by these charlatans.
Indeed Mthuli Ncube is the worst minister of finance and I strongly believe Tendai Biti was correct when he said this.
In conclusion, as Zimbabweans let's tighten our belts the journey to Canaan is still a long way but we are almost there.
*henerimadiro@gmail.com*
Henry Madiro is a concerned Zimbabwean citizen who writes about issues affecting the people especially the marginalized poor.
Source - Henry Madiro
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