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Mugabe's govt broke, fails to implement its 2013 election promises
18 Jan 2017 at 04:01hrs | Views
A political analyst Rejoice Ngwenya has said that President Robert Mugabe's government is too broke and has failed to implement its election promises of 2013.
"One of Zanu.PF's most ridiculous, if not criminal 2013 electoral promises goes something like: "Repatriate Zimbabwe's sanctions-bled human capital from the diaspora." Sanctions-bled? There are upwards to three million Zimbabweans in the Diaspora, and counting, displaced not by sanctions but by poverty, bad governance, human rights violations and lack of local capacity to provide sustainable employment," Ngwenya said.
"What would it take, apart from forced deportations or criminal extradition, to ‘repatriate' Brighton Musonza, Reason Wafawarova, Justice Mavedzenge, Grace Kwinjeh, Brian Kagoro, Strive Masiyiwa, Mthuli Ncube – and these are highly professional Zimbabweans - to a country still ruled by Zanu.PF? Mugabe's government is broke – not even capable of paying its civil servants, not least supply drugs in public hospitals. Finance minister's Chinamasa 2017 budget is a miserly four billion dollars, 90% of which is meant for government salaries."
He said the Confederation of Zimbabwe industry currently talks about 37% industrial capacity utilisation (never mind SI 64 of 2017), with almost six hundred companies having closed so far.
"More lies: five years from 2013, Zanu PF promised to create "value of US$7,3 billion from the indigenisation of 1,138 companies across 14 key sectors of the economy and over US$1,844,223,157,000 created from the idle value of empowerment assets unlocked from parastatals, local authorities, mineral rights and claims and from the State to capacitate Agribank with US$2 billion to finance the stimulation of agricultural productivity; to capacitate IDBZ with US$3 billion to finance the rehabilitation and construction of physical infrastructure; and US$2 billion to finance the rehabilitation of social infrastructure and to capacitate Sedco with US$300 million to fund innovative women's and youths initiatives," he said.
"Is there something about these lies you know that I don't? US$7,3 billion from the indigenisation of 1,138 companies across 14 key sectors? #ZanuPFMustFall."
"One of Zanu.PF's most ridiculous, if not criminal 2013 electoral promises goes something like: "Repatriate Zimbabwe's sanctions-bled human capital from the diaspora." Sanctions-bled? There are upwards to three million Zimbabweans in the Diaspora, and counting, displaced not by sanctions but by poverty, bad governance, human rights violations and lack of local capacity to provide sustainable employment," Ngwenya said.
"What would it take, apart from forced deportations or criminal extradition, to ‘repatriate' Brighton Musonza, Reason Wafawarova, Justice Mavedzenge, Grace Kwinjeh, Brian Kagoro, Strive Masiyiwa, Mthuli Ncube – and these are highly professional Zimbabweans - to a country still ruled by Zanu.PF? Mugabe's government is broke – not even capable of paying its civil servants, not least supply drugs in public hospitals. Finance minister's Chinamasa 2017 budget is a miserly four billion dollars, 90% of which is meant for government salaries."
He said the Confederation of Zimbabwe industry currently talks about 37% industrial capacity utilisation (never mind SI 64 of 2017), with almost six hundred companies having closed so far.
"More lies: five years from 2013, Zanu PF promised to create "value of US$7,3 billion from the indigenisation of 1,138 companies across 14 key sectors of the economy and over US$1,844,223,157,000 created from the idle value of empowerment assets unlocked from parastatals, local authorities, mineral rights and claims and from the State to capacitate Agribank with US$2 billion to finance the stimulation of agricultural productivity; to capacitate IDBZ with US$3 billion to finance the rehabilitation and construction of physical infrastructure; and US$2 billion to finance the rehabilitation of social infrastructure and to capacitate Sedco with US$300 million to fund innovative women's and youths initiatives," he said.
"Is there something about these lies you know that I don't? US$7,3 billion from the indigenisation of 1,138 companies across 14 key sectors? #ZanuPFMustFall."
Source - Byo24News
