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Tsvangirai praying for ailing economy - typical of one praying good harvest not just good rain!
02 Apr 2015 at 20:40hrs | Views
From the day the Lord kicked Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden mankind has had to earn his bread.
"Cursed is the ground for your sake;" said the Lord, Genesis 3:17, to the two fig-tree leaf clad lovers. "In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life." It was a high price to pay for a quickie!
True enough all those who have not shied away from hard work have rarely gone to bed in an empty belly whilst those who have shunned hard work have gone hungry. Whilst the hard working farmer prays for good rains the lazy one prays for a good harvest. The former knows the good rains are not enough, he will have to work hard to get the good harvest; the later prays for both the good rains and no toil, the return to the Garden of Eden.
It is bad enough that an individual should foolishly waste their time and the good Lord's time praying for the return to the Garden of Eden but it becomes intolerable when a national leader leads from the from in this foolishness! Morgan Tsvangirai has been leading the nation in asking for the return to the Garden of Eden where we can expect a rich harvest without having to toil for it.
The MDC-T leader pleaded with Zimbabweans to pray for the ailing economy.
In many respects Zimbabwe is already the Garden of Eden in that the she is richly endowed with good land and good rains so the country can grow enough so no Zimbabwean should ever go hungry. The country has been the breadbasket of the region for Pete's sake until Mugabe initiated the 2000 farm invasion; ever since the nation has relied on imported food.
This year the nation is facing a serious food shortage because the rainfall was late but the situation has been made a lot worse because the nation's grain silos were empty although the nation has had good rains in the last seasons. The situation is made even worse by the fact that the country's economy is in total meltdown and thus will not have the money to import food.
35 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption and lawlessness have taken their toll; many companies, unable to bear the burden of since criminal waste of resources, have since closed down sending unemployment soaring into 90%. Donors and would be investors have shied away from investing in the country frightened by the corruption and lawlessness.
Mugabe's hope of rigging economic recovery with his ZimAsset plan has failed because none one was prepared to bankroll such a hare-brain scheme. The plan was simple enough, Mugabe was not going to do anything to end the criminal waste of resources due mismanagement and corruption but would instead throw lots and lots of money at economy to cover the wastage and hope some would filter through and be used for the recovery. He was asking for $27 billion or three times the national debt; of course there were no takers!
Zimbabwe has vast mineral wealth but again the riches have not been used wisely. Zimbabwe has $ 800 billion worth of diamonds in Marange and Chiadzwa alone and yet the nation has very little to show for it. A few weeks ago Finance Minister told parliament the diamonds "were finished"; of course he was lying.
"Those who benefitted from diamonds in Chiadzwa are (VP Emmerson) Mnangagwa and others from the army including a company called Anjin," former Zanu PF Politburo supremo Didymus Mutasa told New Zimbabwe the other day. The looting and plunder has been going on for years and continues to this day.
Of people Morgan Tsvangirai is a political leader who should KNOW and UNDERSTAND the root causes of Zimbabwe's ailing economy - gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and lawlessness. If we grant him the benefit of the doubt that he knows and understand the root causes then he should know that these are all man-made problems and therefore per se within the powers of any other mortal being to solve.
In other words Morgan Tsvangirai is asking the nation to pray to God to toil on our behalf to end the mismanagement, the corruption and lawlessness because he was too corrupt and incompetent to end them when he had all the chance to do so.
During the GNU Zimbabwe had its best chance ever to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and with it the mismanagement, etc. All Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends had to do was implement the raft of democratic reform agreed in the GPA. After five years in the GNU they failed to get even one reform implemented. Not one!
Mugabe paid Tsvangirai and his MDC friends well to kick reforms into the tall grass throughout the GNU years and hence not even one reform was implemented. Neither Tsvangirai nor anyone else in MDC has ever apologized to the nation for being corrupt and incompetent in failing to implement even one reform.
By asking the people to pray for the ailing economy the village idiot is essentially admitting he was powerless to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship but expected God to have done it instead!
Meanwhile, Tsvangirai also appealed to the nation to pray for the aging leader, President Robert Mugabe and his family.
"But above all, let us pray for this country and its leadership," he said. "Let us pray for President Mugabe and his government so that they become a God-fearing leadership that truly serves the people and not harm them.
"We pray that they prioritize the people and their welfare; that they value human life and that their own welfare should be subordinate to their love of God and all His people in Zimbabwe. But above all, the hope of the people of Zimbabwe remains firm and unstinting. We in this country know we shall be that prosperous people that you have always wanted us to be".
As the leader of the opposition, Morgan Tsvangirai, is supposed to hold Mugabe and Zanu PF to account in this world and not sit back for the Lord to hold them to account in the after-life!
"Let us pray for his (Itai Dzamara) family; especially his wife and children in the hope and faith that he shall one day come home alive," Tsvangirai said.
If Tsvangirai had implemented the reforms when he had the chance to do so then Dzamara would be with his family right now.
Zimbabwe has the potential to be a prosperous nation, we have more resources than many very prosperous nations cannot even dream of, but even in this paradise on earth we too have to put a few days' work to get a bumper harvest. We must accept the reality that Zimbabwe is not the Garden of Eden where we never have to toil to prosper and must reject the corrupt and incompetent political leaders and the bogus prophets who have been telling us we can achieve all that by nothing else but praying!
"Cursed is the ground for your sake;" said the Lord, Genesis 3:17, to the two fig-tree leaf clad lovers. "In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life." It was a high price to pay for a quickie!
True enough all those who have not shied away from hard work have rarely gone to bed in an empty belly whilst those who have shunned hard work have gone hungry. Whilst the hard working farmer prays for good rains the lazy one prays for a good harvest. The former knows the good rains are not enough, he will have to work hard to get the good harvest; the later prays for both the good rains and no toil, the return to the Garden of Eden.
It is bad enough that an individual should foolishly waste their time and the good Lord's time praying for the return to the Garden of Eden but it becomes intolerable when a national leader leads from the from in this foolishness! Morgan Tsvangirai has been leading the nation in asking for the return to the Garden of Eden where we can expect a rich harvest without having to toil for it.
The MDC-T leader pleaded with Zimbabweans to pray for the ailing economy.
In many respects Zimbabwe is already the Garden of Eden in that the she is richly endowed with good land and good rains so the country can grow enough so no Zimbabwean should ever go hungry. The country has been the breadbasket of the region for Pete's sake until Mugabe initiated the 2000 farm invasion; ever since the nation has relied on imported food.
This year the nation is facing a serious food shortage because the rainfall was late but the situation has been made a lot worse because the nation's grain silos were empty although the nation has had good rains in the last seasons. The situation is made even worse by the fact that the country's economy is in total meltdown and thus will not have the money to import food.
35 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption and lawlessness have taken their toll; many companies, unable to bear the burden of since criminal waste of resources, have since closed down sending unemployment soaring into 90%. Donors and would be investors have shied away from investing in the country frightened by the corruption and lawlessness.
Mugabe's hope of rigging economic recovery with his ZimAsset plan has failed because none one was prepared to bankroll such a hare-brain scheme. The plan was simple enough, Mugabe was not going to do anything to end the criminal waste of resources due mismanagement and corruption but would instead throw lots and lots of money at economy to cover the wastage and hope some would filter through and be used for the recovery. He was asking for $27 billion or three times the national debt; of course there were no takers!
Zimbabwe has vast mineral wealth but again the riches have not been used wisely. Zimbabwe has $ 800 billion worth of diamonds in Marange and Chiadzwa alone and yet the nation has very little to show for it. A few weeks ago Finance Minister told parliament the diamonds "were finished"; of course he was lying.
"Those who benefitted from diamonds in Chiadzwa are (VP Emmerson) Mnangagwa and others from the army including a company called Anjin," former Zanu PF Politburo supremo Didymus Mutasa told New Zimbabwe the other day. The looting and plunder has been going on for years and continues to this day.
Of people Morgan Tsvangirai is a political leader who should KNOW and UNDERSTAND the root causes of Zimbabwe's ailing economy - gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and lawlessness. If we grant him the benefit of the doubt that he knows and understand the root causes then he should know that these are all man-made problems and therefore per se within the powers of any other mortal being to solve.
In other words Morgan Tsvangirai is asking the nation to pray to God to toil on our behalf to end the mismanagement, the corruption and lawlessness because he was too corrupt and incompetent to end them when he had all the chance to do so.
During the GNU Zimbabwe had its best chance ever to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and with it the mismanagement, etc. All Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends had to do was implement the raft of democratic reform agreed in the GPA. After five years in the GNU they failed to get even one reform implemented. Not one!
Mugabe paid Tsvangirai and his MDC friends well to kick reforms into the tall grass throughout the GNU years and hence not even one reform was implemented. Neither Tsvangirai nor anyone else in MDC has ever apologized to the nation for being corrupt and incompetent in failing to implement even one reform.
By asking the people to pray for the ailing economy the village idiot is essentially admitting he was powerless to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship but expected God to have done it instead!
Meanwhile, Tsvangirai also appealed to the nation to pray for the aging leader, President Robert Mugabe and his family.
"But above all, let us pray for this country and its leadership," he said. "Let us pray for President Mugabe and his government so that they become a God-fearing leadership that truly serves the people and not harm them.
"We pray that they prioritize the people and their welfare; that they value human life and that their own welfare should be subordinate to their love of God and all His people in Zimbabwe. But above all, the hope of the people of Zimbabwe remains firm and unstinting. We in this country know we shall be that prosperous people that you have always wanted us to be".
As the leader of the opposition, Morgan Tsvangirai, is supposed to hold Mugabe and Zanu PF to account in this world and not sit back for the Lord to hold them to account in the after-life!
"Let us pray for his (Itai Dzamara) family; especially his wife and children in the hope and faith that he shall one day come home alive," Tsvangirai said.
If Tsvangirai had implemented the reforms when he had the chance to do so then Dzamara would be with his family right now.
Zimbabwe has the potential to be a prosperous nation, we have more resources than many very prosperous nations cannot even dream of, but even in this paradise on earth we too have to put a few days' work to get a bumper harvest. We must accept the reality that Zimbabwe is not the Garden of Eden where we never have to toil to prosper and must reject the corrupt and incompetent political leaders and the bogus prophets who have been telling us we can achieve all that by nothing else but praying!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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