Chinese pleased Mnangagwa is next VP - Zimbabweans must never forgive Chinese treachery in this!

The Chinese are very pleased their man, Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, is now set to be Zimbabwe's next president after Mugabe.   

"We are aware that China has already congratulated Mr.Mnangagwa, and everything has gone according to their plan so far, since they are pushing for his ultimate takeover of power in Zimbabwe," a reliable diplomat in Harare told The Telescope.

"There is even speculation that Chinese leader Xi Jinping might make a state visit to Zimbabwe before the end of next year, which will be historic and a first of it's kind, also meant to endorse Mnangagwa."

The Telescope confirmed its September story, soon after Mugabe's August trade visit to China, that the Asian giant will give Zimbabwe a further $1 billion if Mnangagwa's presidency was assured. The Chinese have their man in State House and what are we, the Zimbabwean people getting in this bargain (in which we had no say as usual)?

Last year we got Mugabe and Zanu PF in a blatantly rigged election, China played a part in the vote rigging (the full details of the vote rigging and China's role will be uncovered someday soon); Zanu PF's own democratic process has been brazenly shredded and thrown away to remove Joice Mujuru who had the democratic popular support of the party and replace her with Mnangagwa, if China played no role in this its public endorsement of what happened speaks volumes. The bottom line for us is that we are stuck with a repressive regime which is not democratically accountable to us the electorate nor even to its own party membership.

Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess with unemployment a nauseating 90% plus and 16% or 2 million Zimbabweans already living in abject poverty because the country was ruled by a corrupt and oppressive regime that rigged elections and so was not accountable to the people. The Chinese have now used their influence and political interference blatant and subtle so ensure the same corrupt and oppressive regime remains in power.  

The $ 1 billion the Chinese are promising to sugar coat the pill of the Mnangagwa presidency will not help end Zimbabwe's economic meltdown. It will buy the regime some breathing space, four or six months at the most. What we need are solutions to get us out of this hell-hole; we need the cancerous tumours of mismanagement and corruption removed, which is only possible if we have democratic reforms and a democratic government, and not yet another dose of painkillers.
Mugabe and/or Mnangagwa are not going to address the country's underlying problems of mismanagement and corruption; they both lack the political will to do it because the party's hold on power is now totally dependent on the political patronage system which is the root cause of the problems. The regime would have done this a long time ago if this had not been the case.
The other problem the regime faces is that it has lost the trust of donors and investors alike. Even if the regime scrapped the obnoxious indigenisation law, which investors have found totally unacceptable, no one would trust the regime to honour the scrapping given its reputation.
As long as one of these problems remained unresolved; Zimbabwe's economic recovery will remain a pipe dream. The Chinese can throw $ 1 billion at the economy and keep it going for a few months and then the regime will be back demanding more.

China's relationship with Zimbabwe is already highly suspect; there is no doubt the Asian giant has help Mugabe rig elections in the past. Mugabe has signed too made secret deals with China and many people believe the tyrant has sold the nation's many treasures for a song. The last thing we want is have Mnangagwa sell-off whatever is still left.

China is not known for its generosity; the $1 billion down payment China is paying to secure Mnangagwa the presidency, Zimbabweans will be repay it hundred fold direct or indirectly if we let China get away with this blatant inference in our internal affairs. The Chinese money will not change the fundamental facts on the ground that this Zanu PF regime rigged last year's national elections and Mnangagwa rigged Zanu PF's own party elections to secure his victory. We are fighting for a democratic Zimbabwe and this $1 billion to bolster Mnangagwa's presidency is nothing but a sugar coated poison pill, sugar to Mnangagwa and poison to us, we will never forget not forgive such treachery.