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Why I am joining politics fulltime and what I am going to do

28 Jun 2016 at 05:53hrs | Views
I believe in Jesus power and therefore Zimbabweans I greet you all in the name of Jesus because the Bible which has become our spiritual standard with over ninety percent of the population our country says the world and everything in it belongs to God and as I step onto the political platform  my brothers and sisters I have  determined that the only way for me to see the kind of changes that I believe we require in our country and for me and to see the kind of transformation that our country requires

I need to step onto the platform of social economic progress and apply my time and talent as others are.

I come with an idea and a concept of intent backed by a compelling vision that has a budget. I intend to drive solutions to the concerns listed below, including a fast track taskforce for capital acquisition.

Then he said, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but now I will go and wake him up." John 11 .11

God delivers. "And I will shake all nations and the desires of man shall come"

God can provide our immediate needs today in a seemingly hopeless state
  "For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not Job 33.4 and 15
-in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;-
He shall pray unto God, and he will be favorable unto him:-"

I am fully convinced of the prophecies of our revolutionary legends Nkrumah, Sankara, Nyerere, Kenyatta, and Kaunda which speak of a new Africa created by us.

My first major concern in Zimbabwe is the lack of sense urgency of the destitute and disastrous emergency in which innocent Zimbabweans who just want to wake up and take care of their survival and the continuous improvement of their quality of life, have had their ability to do so impeded by insensitive, stubborn and subjective human will distracted from the duty and will to serve.

"Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed."

Mwai Kibaki
The first thing I will do is to drive the sense of urgency by calling for leading minds and merchants of vision to A "Strategic Humanitarian Intervention Initiative" which I we can launch soon. We will establish an adhoc taskforce for immediate help. We would establish parallel central bank outside of Zimbabwe to supply and manage capital our banks and social intervention, with an initial capital of USD 10 bn dollars which I know how to raise. The bank would become a Sub-Saharan central capital management bank drive tested by Zimbabwe.

The second concern I have is the total presumption both on the Presidents' and the political system and the socio-economic stage that we the people can solve all our problems outside of the revelatory expression of God the almighty and the omniscient omnipresence whose has the divine inherent hold on every process and yet we believe as it were that divinity is wired in our being as an umbilical cord of power and super consciousness called the holy spirit. Why do you think Jesus Christ said to the disciples to wait till they are covered with the Holy Spirit and power?

We are a spiritual people through and through but the President is totally passive there- he is misleading the nation here.

"One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself." Albert Einstein

My third concern is the socio-economic rut, the in ability of humanity to simplify and solve bottlenecks found in the capacity of man to forge ahead in creative enterprise at highest level, regardless of all the academic, education and intelligence our Zimbabweans are endowed with: I strongly believe there is great need from the infusion of new minds leading to get Zimbabwe out of the socio-economic mud we are stuck in.

I see glaring need for mental plasticity and ductility away from the conservative of what is into the divine unknown of what can be.

 It is no wonder one of the most malleable and ductile minds, Einstein said,

"After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well." Albert Einstein.

A huge problem is lack of strategic art and foresight in the presence of a sea of insight and the exclusion of the aggregate capacity of Zimbabweans in our complementarity to solve our problems and respect the gifts of simple revelation and foresight is a major nemesis. The political divisions are disheartening.

I differ in totally opposite direction in observations with the current opposition philosophy on what is the real problem in Zimbabwe today. The opposition believes that it is the political ability of the ruling party and the unilateral subjective and total usurp of the societies power by the President and his inconsistence with application of constitutional provisions that are the critical challenges.

Your ability to simplify a problem is your capacity to solve it. It is my scholarly opinion that there is a glaring lack of the ability to simplify the problems we have.

I believe that our major problem is our in ability to strive and thrive that is the disease; impediment to progress. What is causing that disease, it is a bacteria not a virus, it can be cured; a political bacteria that is in the system. The bacteria is called ‘an ethical challenge"-a behavior problem.

An allegory to illustrate my point; a doctors goal is the wellbeing of the patient not killing the bacteria therefore his focus is on creating a strategy to make that happen, the patient to get well. Removing the bacteria is not his major goal but an objective. Our focus should be establishing our industrial space and the politics becomes strategic objective that is linked to a greater vision that we can control.

What seems obvious to those gifted with technical insight is what appears to be the expression of minimum ability to show understanding of the, source, purpose of the constitution and the powers endowed the community in the constitution together with the sanctity and application of the judicially sacred provisions within the constitution, designed solely for the security of and the inalienable pen-ultimate default application by the society.

"If the leaders of a culture are themselves devoid of mindsight, then the young, emerging minds of that culture will be leaving in a world in which the blind are leading the blind"
Dr Daniel J. Siegel.

My fourth concern is lack of mindsight-imagination-the source of philosophy; I think it was Adan Smith who has said life is run by nothing but philosophy. It seems scholarly and historically apparent that while technical expertise is abundant in academics, original philosophical thought leadership and Imagineering of new vision are conspicuously absent.

Zimbabweans and Africans at large are stuck in myths, lies and optical illusions and the foreign inherent philosophy that "an African is and will never become,' all embodied by the limitations of the institutions that are running Africa.

We like being bound by history, but are afraid to venture into what can be.

 We ignore mindsight in favor of academics, history and intelligence so we get stuck in continuous evolutionary process of trying in failure to fix that which has no power to drive us into the future, knowing fully that we can invent the future as Sankara said "we must dare invent the future.-there is no fundamental change without a certain level of madness'

My last concern is the lack of respect and credit other people's ideas as Zimbabweans  try to copycat solutions from fellow Zimbabweans and take ownership and credit for original ideas and solutions given by others and in the process delaying our deliverance for lack of creative back up and personal political positioning. The fragments in our politics are a sign of lack of leadership and honor of others.

Someone very close to me says "the problem with Zimbabweans is everyone wants to be a solution."

I found out the hard way when Vincent Musewe whom I trusted with plan templates to drive solutions, having agreed to launch them together.  When he discovered the power in them he decided peddle as his and eviscerates my plans back into ideas in article to posture for exposure to the electorate. Time will come when truth will flow out into the plain.

The 1 trillion dollar vision, the RE-invent initiative and the raising of the first USD 20bn to kick start Zimbabwe that he is throwing around are not ideas but part of a package of the Strategic architecture that I created that is complete. The danger is losing stuff in translation and impeding creativity.

I have no problem if a Zimbabwean gathers knowledge, but a plan is something that one must get credit. I sincerely believe in my own opinion that putting our economic future in Vincent Musewe could be fatal blander because he is a man whose writing gifts have put him where his skills are limited.

I wail for those in politics who believe he is the economic strategic answer to our problems.

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Hannington Mubaiwa - Wezims2024@gmail.com or hanningtonmubaiwa@gmail.com

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