Zimbabwe economic collapse is due to tyrant's incompetence

Mugabe did not mince his words when he address the UN General Assembly and once again blamed the "illegal sanctions" imposed on his regime by the "evil West" for all Zimbabwe's economic problems. The US hit right back and told the tyrant, in no uncertain terms, that Zimbabwe's economic woes are due to his incompetence!

"Zimbabwe is a great country with potential to build its own good future. It has the capability and it has the primary drivers that are able to take the country to another level, but the problem lies in the policy and decision makers," UNITED States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Bruce Wharton said.

The Ambassador is not telling us something many thinking Zimbabweans do not already know and have not said a thousand times already but when you live in a country where the only voices that are heard and count are those of Mugabe and his cronies, saying the same thing a thousand times again is all one can do. What else can one do when faced with the brick wall of totalitarian autocracy!

There is a new voice, a new kid on the block, the economic meltdown; Mugabe has turned a deaf ear to that voice but for how long?

The Zimbabwe economy is facing the most serious economic meltdown because of the rampant corruption - ignored for decades and thus allowed the time and cover to grow and spread and now the chickens in red-billed quelea numbers have come home to roost - and the lack of the much needed foreign investment. The economic meltdown will only get worse as long as this incompetent Zanu-PF regime remains in power.

The economic meltdown has its python coils wrapped round the economy and it is squeezing tighter and tighter; companies have been closing down and the python has taken up the slack depriving the remaining ones the customers and suppliers – the oxygen – and thus forcing them to close in turn.

The economic meltdown is the one voice Mugabe will find impossible to ignore because it is hitting everyone including the hard core Zanu-PF loyalists. Zanu-PF grandees like the late Nathan Shamuyarira died a pauper; if poverty was lord of the manor is his home poverty is worshipped like a God by the rest!

A recent UNICEF report said 62% of Zimbabweans are poor and 16% or 2 million now live in abject poverty. Count hard core Zanu-PF loyalists will be amongst them. The situation is getting worse and the count is going up!  

The only way out is for this Zanu-PF regime to step down, allow ALL the democratic reforms that should have been implemented during the GNU to be implemented and the hold free, fair and credible elections. If this has been said once, it has been said thousands of times and will be repeated a million times again because it is the truth and is the only way out.

The Mugabe regime must step down now and not wait till 2018; the nation cannot afford another day of this economic meltdown induce slow death by strangulation.

"In the wake of 2013 elections, we remain concerned the democratic process is still subject to political pressure. But at the same time, we don't want to wait five years for another election to sort of go through this process again," said the Ambassador.

Indeed if the nation does not implement the reforms before the next elections be there in 2018 then the whole process will be a futile rerun of the 2013 rigged elections!

Of course Mugabe can afford to ignore the economic meltdown. When one has lived in the palatial comforts and luxuries for decades they develop a disconnect from reality, the "let them eat cake" Marie Antoinette disconnect. The 2 million and counting Zimbabweans living in abject poverty, on the coal face of the economic meltdown, will be reminded of their miserable existence every hour 24/7; hunger knows not day from night! They will be forced sooner or later to tell Mugabe what they are going through, force him to reconnect with reality and force him to go! 

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