Minister Moyo went to Cuba begging for cash and got Bay of Pigs socialism verse

I am glad to note that economic meltdown has forced even the hard-to-crack Brazil nut headed Zanu PF leaders like Simon Khaya Moyo to finally realise that rigging the 2013 elections was not enough to guarantee his cherished wish of Zanu PF ruling "until donkeys grow horns"; the party MUST rig economic recovery too. And the measure of whether or not the party has accomplished that task is how much is in the $ 27 billion ZimAsset begging bowl!

Whether or not our Brazil-nut Simon Khaya Moyo fully appreciates the economic reality is beside the point what matters is he was roped in to go to Cuba to beg for more money to fill that begging bowl. A waste of time of course, if all China and Russia can contribute is a misery $5 billion is in naïve to expect poor Cuba cough out the remaining $22 billion!

Simon Khaya Moyo was told to forget his cat-fight for the Zanu PF post of VP and go to Cube to beg for hard cash!

"We understand their (West) fear when China and Russia are pouring in billions of dollars to partner with Zimbabwe in infrastructure, mining and beneficiation of minerals within Zimbabwe," Minister Khaya Moyo said at the end of his visit in Havana.  

Of course, Minister Moyo did not travel half way round the world to tell the people of Cuba that! He went there to beg for money and when his hosts showed him their empty pockets he had to put on a brave face. What better way than tell them that actually Zimbabwe is not begging because the country is up to her eyes in the billions of dollars China and Russian are poured into the country. Quick thinking, only if he stopped there!

 "Zimbabwe undertook the land reform programme which took more than 12 million hectares of land owned by about 4,000 British settlers and corporations and gave it back to millions of Zimbabweans after almost 100 years of being dispossessed," explained Minister Moyo.

God only knows how many times the world has heard this story. Mugabe retold the same sorry story for the umpteenth time only last week at the UN General assembly. What is more, the world already knows that this Mugabe version of the story is the beautiful woman wearing a bikini version - it reveals a lot but conceal the essential. Few people have ever questioned the need for land reform what the Mugabe version conceals is that his redistribution was a lawless and violent seizure of the white farms for the sole benefit of himself, his family and party loyalists, only a very few landless peasants got the crumbs!

 "So we were slapped with trade sanctions, unilaterally," continued Minister Moyo. "It is because our political clarity is too dangerous for their selfish interests and others should be encouraged not to follow suit by demonstrating that if they dare follow, their economies will be wrecked by unilateral economic sanctions."

In other words Zimbabwe's economy was "wrecked by unilateral economic sanctions" and the Minister was in Cuba begging for money. Yes the China and Russia have poured in billions of dollars but nowhere near the $27 billion Zimbabwe need to finance its economically unsustainable wasteful system.

Cuba would be grateful for the $5 billion in aid itself let alone give away any herself.  No offense but the only thing Cuba could offer Zimbabwe is some socialism ideology. But no socialism verses, even those composed during the heroic Bay of Pigs days, will not pay the bill of the imported cars for the ministers. The teachers will not be amused to see their wages paid in socialism prose; they do not eat prose.

The cat-fight for position going in Zanu PF is serious and, ordinarily, Mugabe and his cronies would be expending all their time, money and sweat on nothing else but Zanu PF party intrigue. But these are not ordinary times, the economic meltdown and the hardships it has brought is really forced everyone in Zanu PF to pay attention.

When Mugabe to China to beg, everyone knew that was that was the last throw of the dice. Sadly he came back with very little. Minister Khaya Moyo's trip to Cuba was an act of desperation; the party will beg from a stray dog if it had money, that is how desperate the situation has become.

Mugabe and Zanu PF rigged last year's elections, as they have done with all the other elections in the past, to avoid regime change. 2013 elections were different from all the other past elections in that this time rigging the elections alone was not enough to secure power, the party had to rig economic recovery too. It is over a year since the rigged elections and it is as clear as daylight that the regime has failed to rig economic recovery, the ZimAsset begging bowl has but a token amount!

Mugabe has failed to deliver economic recovery and the price is regime change. After all the bribing, threatening, raping, corrupting and disregarding of the laws and all the human misery and the over 30 000 murdered to avoid regime change; Mugabe has done all these evil things causing all this tragic suffering and waste of resources and human lives only to be confronted with the very thing he was running away from - regime change.

Sadly for Mugabe and Zanu PF they have to accept regime-change this time because change is in nature and resisting it was futile. All they have ever done is delay change and now the time is up. Minister Khaya Moyo's boasting that Zanu PF will rule "until donkeys have horns" is as hollow as Ian Smith's "No black majority rule in a thousand years!"