Opinion / Columnist
Mnangagwa symbolises a failed leadership
07 Nov 2020 at 00:55hrs | Views
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa symbolises a failed leadership. When a leadership fails to provide basic services such as clean water, shelter, food, jobs and power, that leadership deserves urgent replacement.
Too much corruption is breed-ing misery in our political institutions and absolutist economic institutions, that's why the elite are engaged in corrupt activities. Because of their proximity to power, they are found at airports with bags full of processed gold waiting to be smuggled, where scanners and cameras are switched off to accord the criminals swift passage.
But that type of extractive governance is not sustainable.
At some point, you hit a brickwall, no wonder why everything is falling apart for the so-called new dispensation. If we are to be honest, our education has been crippled as teachers are incapacitated and can't afford even bus fare to work. To make matters worse, the healthcare sector is in the intensive care unit because doctors and nurses are incapacitated, poorly equipped, have no drugs and earn a pittance.
They simply stopped reporting for duty because it's pointless doing so.
In the agricultural sector, billions of dollars have been spirit-ed out under some dubious farmers' support schemes. The nation cannot feed itself, millions are now starving and in need of food aid.
The other sectors such as the judiciary is incapacitated, weakened and captured and tourism is completely dead and waiting to be preserved in a special museum.
The mining industry is losing billions via smuggling and corruption, while infrastructure is now broken down.
From the look of things, it is a matter of time before Mnangagwa is pushed out by the same system that propelled him up the ladder.
Too much corruption is breed-ing misery in our political institutions and absolutist economic institutions, that's why the elite are engaged in corrupt activities. Because of their proximity to power, they are found at airports with bags full of processed gold waiting to be smuggled, where scanners and cameras are switched off to accord the criminals swift passage.
But that type of extractive governance is not sustainable.
At some point, you hit a brickwall, no wonder why everything is falling apart for the so-called new dispensation. If we are to be honest, our education has been crippled as teachers are incapacitated and can't afford even bus fare to work. To make matters worse, the healthcare sector is in the intensive care unit because doctors and nurses are incapacitated, poorly equipped, have no drugs and earn a pittance.
In the agricultural sector, billions of dollars have been spirit-ed out under some dubious farmers' support schemes. The nation cannot feed itself, millions are now starving and in need of food aid.
The other sectors such as the judiciary is incapacitated, weakened and captured and tourism is completely dead and waiting to be preserved in a special museum.
The mining industry is losing billions via smuggling and corruption, while infrastructure is now broken down.
From the look of things, it is a matter of time before Mnangagwa is pushed out by the same system that propelled him up the ladder.
Source - newsday
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