Opinion / Columnist
Chinamasa set to real China mega deal - Chinese acupuncture will not cure of cancer
10 Sep 2014 at 16:40hrs | Views
According to a report in New Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance, Patrick Chinamasa has called the nation's leaders of industry and all other interested parties to the Harare International Conference Centre to "to unpack the much-vaunted ‘mega deals' that Zimbabwe signed with China two weeks ago".
The Zimbabwe economy is sick from the cancer of corruption that has been allowed to grow and spread these last 34 years. What we want is to remove this cancer; whatever mega-deal the Chinese are offering is no more than Chinese acupuncture, a temporary pain relief. We want a cure not a pain relief!
Zimbabwe's economic recovery will not happen without putting an end to the criminal waste of human and material resources stemming from the gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. For the last 34 years Mugabe has denied the very existence of these cancers allowing them to grow and spread and now they are the size of tennis ball and they are found in every facade of Zimbabwe economic life.
Nothing of any meaning can ever be achieved without first removing these cancerous tumours killing the nation's economy. Even if the Chinese give Mugabe all the $27 billion he asked for in his ZimAsset plan, every penny of it; it will not be enough to put the national economy on a firm recovery path, not as long as the haemorrhaging of wealth and resources from the mismanagement and corruption is allowed to continue.
Mugabe and Zanu PF will never end mismanagement and corruption because these are the very basis of the tyrant's political power and strength; cutting off mismanagement and corruption is like cutting off the Biblical Samson's hair, Mugabe and Zanu PF will be helpless. It is naïve to think Mugabe and Zanu PF will ever address these core economic problems and so as long as they remain in office Zimbabwe's economy will never recover even if the whole economic body looked like a porcupine with acupuncture needles.
If Mugabe and Zanu PF do not have the political courage and fortitude to remove the cancerous tumours kill the national economy then the regime must step down and allow the nation to elect, in a free, fair and credible election, a new regime to do it!
The Zimbabwe economy is sick from the cancer of corruption that has been allowed to grow and spread these last 34 years. What we want is to remove this cancer; whatever mega-deal the Chinese are offering is no more than Chinese acupuncture, a temporary pain relief. We want a cure not a pain relief!
Zimbabwe's economic recovery will not happen without putting an end to the criminal waste of human and material resources stemming from the gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. For the last 34 years Mugabe has denied the very existence of these cancers allowing them to grow and spread and now they are the size of tennis ball and they are found in every facade of Zimbabwe economic life.
Mugabe and Zanu PF will never end mismanagement and corruption because these are the very basis of the tyrant's political power and strength; cutting off mismanagement and corruption is like cutting off the Biblical Samson's hair, Mugabe and Zanu PF will be helpless. It is naïve to think Mugabe and Zanu PF will ever address these core economic problems and so as long as they remain in office Zimbabwe's economy will never recover even if the whole economic body looked like a porcupine with acupuncture needles.
If Mugabe and Zanu PF do not have the political courage and fortitude to remove the cancerous tumours kill the national economy then the regime must step down and allow the nation to elect, in a free, fair and credible election, a new regime to do it!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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