Opinion / Columnist
Economic meltdown is real Mugabe must step down or he will take it over the edge
23 Sep 2014 at 15:25hrs | Views
"THE High Court has placed three firms in key industries under judicial management and provisional liquidation as the economic slowdown continues to stalk companies grappling with reduced capacity and debt," reported the New Zimbabwe. It was just one of many reports confirming the Zimbabwe's worsen economic meltdown.
The economic meltdown is like a python it has its coils round the economy and each time he breaths out the python takes the slack and squeeze.
Every company that closes no new company emerge to take its place. Every company that closes starves the remaining ones the customers, the oxygen, they need to survive let alone thrive; it is only a matter of time before they in turn close.
The apartheid Boers of SA had the good sense to admit apartheid was going nowhere and step down. Sadly good sense is not something a seasoned tyrant like Mugabe has. He will hang on to power to the bitter end like his former mentor Colonel Gaddafi.
As long as Mugabe and Zanu PF remain in power the economic meltdown will only get worse. The economic collapse is already pushed unemployment is the nauseating heights of 85% plus, basic services like clean running water have collapsed, 300 000 or 80% children who should be at school have dropped out, etc. According to a recent UNICEF report 2 million Zimbabweans are already living in abject poverty. The economic misery this is inflicting on the nation is heart-breaking.
In June Pope Francis told Zimbabwe's Catholic clergy visiting Rome that the economic suffering the people of Zimbabwe are facing had "reached human limit". But clearly Mugabe and Zanu PF are not touched; they think there is still more room to drag the nation into ever greater depths of misery and despair!
"All our detractors cannot understand how people who go through such economic difficulties fail to create chaos and instability," boosted Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengewi to his fellow SADC Ministers at the SADC meeting.
"But the resilience of Zimbabwean people has become legendary. Yes, legendary! The resilience is unmatched and unparalleled."
The root causes of Zimbabwe's economic decline are multifaceted but they all boil down to decades of misrule by this Zanu PF regimes and the country's dictatorial rule that has denied the people to elect anyone else to rule. Last year's rigged election was the latest manifestation of the undemocratic imposition of by this Zanu PF regime on the nation.
President Mugabe and all his Zanu PF colleagues know they rigged the 31st July 2013 elections confident they will get the donors to bankroll their $27 billion ZimAsset economic recovery plan. It is now over a year since the rigged elections and the regime has failed to raise even a dollar for ZimAsset and the economy is now in total meltdown. Like it or not this Zanu PF regime is clearly unable to do anything to stop the economic meltdown and situation will only get worse as long as this regime remains in power.
The solution to Zimbabwe's economic meltdown is simple enough, the nation must put an end to the criminal waste of human and material resource due the problems of mismanagement and corruption which the regime has denied all these years allowing them to grow and spread like cancers. Since President Mugabe has clearly failed to deal with these problems the nation deserves the right; in a free, fair and credible election; to elect a new government to deal with the problems.
We in the Zimbabwe Social Democrats once again call upon President Mugabe and his Zanu PF friends continued stay in power is only making a very bad economic situation even worse. The nation has been sitting on health and social unrest time-bombs, the consequences of any or both these bombs going off will cause an economic, social and humanitarian upheaval at a scale none of us can even imagine. President Mugabe and his friends have held this nation to ransom and the decades of misrule has cause untold human suffering and deaths. This regime is now threatening to take the nation over the edge that is simply intolerable; cup is full to overflow, enough is enough!
The economic meltdown is like a python it has its coils round the economy and each time he breaths out the python takes the slack and squeeze.
Every company that closes no new company emerge to take its place. Every company that closes starves the remaining ones the customers, the oxygen, they need to survive let alone thrive; it is only a matter of time before they in turn close.
The apartheid Boers of SA had the good sense to admit apartheid was going nowhere and step down. Sadly good sense is not something a seasoned tyrant like Mugabe has. He will hang on to power to the bitter end like his former mentor Colonel Gaddafi.
As long as Mugabe and Zanu PF remain in power the economic meltdown will only get worse. The economic collapse is already pushed unemployment is the nauseating heights of 85% plus, basic services like clean running water have collapsed, 300 000 or 80% children who should be at school have dropped out, etc. According to a recent UNICEF report 2 million Zimbabweans are already living in abject poverty. The economic misery this is inflicting on the nation is heart-breaking.
In June Pope Francis told Zimbabwe's Catholic clergy visiting Rome that the economic suffering the people of Zimbabwe are facing had "reached human limit". But clearly Mugabe and Zanu PF are not touched; they think there is still more room to drag the nation into ever greater depths of misery and despair!
"All our detractors cannot understand how people who go through such economic difficulties fail to create chaos and instability," boosted Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengewi to his fellow SADC Ministers at the SADC meeting.
"But the resilience of Zimbabwean people has become legendary. Yes, legendary! The resilience is unmatched and unparalleled."
The root causes of Zimbabwe's economic decline are multifaceted but they all boil down to decades of misrule by this Zanu PF regimes and the country's dictatorial rule that has denied the people to elect anyone else to rule. Last year's rigged election was the latest manifestation of the undemocratic imposition of by this Zanu PF regime on the nation.
President Mugabe and all his Zanu PF colleagues know they rigged the 31st July 2013 elections confident they will get the donors to bankroll their $27 billion ZimAsset economic recovery plan. It is now over a year since the rigged elections and the regime has failed to raise even a dollar for ZimAsset and the economy is now in total meltdown. Like it or not this Zanu PF regime is clearly unable to do anything to stop the economic meltdown and situation will only get worse as long as this regime remains in power.
The solution to Zimbabwe's economic meltdown is simple enough, the nation must put an end to the criminal waste of human and material resource due the problems of mismanagement and corruption which the regime has denied all these years allowing them to grow and spread like cancers. Since President Mugabe has clearly failed to deal with these problems the nation deserves the right; in a free, fair and credible election; to elect a new government to deal with the problems.
We in the Zimbabwe Social Democrats once again call upon President Mugabe and his Zanu PF friends continued stay in power is only making a very bad economic situation even worse. The nation has been sitting on health and social unrest time-bombs, the consequences of any or both these bombs going off will cause an economic, social and humanitarian upheaval at a scale none of us can even imagine. President Mugabe and his friends have held this nation to ransom and the decades of misrule has cause untold human suffering and deaths. This regime is now threatening to take the nation over the edge that is simply intolerable; cup is full to overflow, enough is enough!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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