Opinion / Columnist
'Mugabe is going nowhere,' says Kasukuwere - the tyrant's time is up, he is going!
27 Jan 2015 at 17:30hrs | Views
"President Mugabe is not going anywhere," said minister Kasukuwere.
"He is a veteran nationalist and God given leader. Mukuru mukuru hanga haigare pfunde. Please let President Mugabe do his work. That's what we agreed on the 6th People Congress."
People's congress, my a***e! Mugabe rigged the party's own electoral process just as he rigged the national elections in 2013! The one thing he has clearly failed to rig is the economic recovery.
His "mega deals" with the Chinese to kick start his ZimAsset recovery plan are falling apart already. The Chinese have come back demanding that the Chinese personal should be appointed in the key government department and parastatal handling the projects they are financing to "stop revenue leakages" according to a Mail and Guardian report. They know about Zimbabwe's economic waste of money and wealth through mismanagement and corruption and they are clearly developing cold feet over their promise to invest $4 billion in such a leaky system.
The Russians are facing serious economic problems of their own. Last month they went cap in hand to beg for US$ 4 billion to prop up the Russian Ruble which had been falling like a stone compared to other currency. Last week Russian government bonds were downgraded to junk value with a corresponding fall in value of 74%! Obvious the Russians will not be starting the platinum mining project their signed with Mugabe for a long time. They have taken up the offer, the sweeter to the platinum deal, to join in the looting of Zimbabwe's diamonds in Marange – just another big leak in which Zimbabwe is the poorer for it.
Like it or not, unless Mugabe can rig economic recovery; so far he has failed to do so and now he has clearly run out of options; then he will be forced to step down because the economic meltdown is set to get worse as long as Mugabe and/or Zanu PF remain in power.
The people of Zimbabwe have suffered great economic hardships and there is a limit to what even they with their "legendary resilience", Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi boasted of, can take. That limit cannot be far off now and once reached the social unrest, after all the decades of bottled up frustration and anger, that result could be a tsunami that no one can stop. Mugabe and his tyrannical thugs will be sweep away like palm leaves in a surf. And the death and destruction it will cause will shock us all and set back the nation for a generation. Surely, that is not what we want!
For the last 35 years it has been Mugabe and Zanu PF alone who have decided who ruled Zimbabwe with all the rest of the people denied any meaningful say. What Mugabe and his cronies like Kasukewere have failed to see is the political system they were imposing on the nation was corrupt and wasteful and therefore doomed to fail. And 35 years it has finally failed; they are just too drunk on power and their egotistic sense of invisibility to notice the game is up.
Yes Minister Kasukuwere, Mugabe reign of terror is over; he is leaving State House whether he likes it or not because the cup is full to overflowing, his time is up!
"He is a veteran nationalist and God given leader. Mukuru mukuru hanga haigare pfunde. Please let President Mugabe do his work. That's what we agreed on the 6th People Congress."
People's congress, my a***e! Mugabe rigged the party's own electoral process just as he rigged the national elections in 2013! The one thing he has clearly failed to rig is the economic recovery.
His "mega deals" with the Chinese to kick start his ZimAsset recovery plan are falling apart already. The Chinese have come back demanding that the Chinese personal should be appointed in the key government department and parastatal handling the projects they are financing to "stop revenue leakages" according to a Mail and Guardian report. They know about Zimbabwe's economic waste of money and wealth through mismanagement and corruption and they are clearly developing cold feet over their promise to invest $4 billion in such a leaky system.
The Russians are facing serious economic problems of their own. Last month they went cap in hand to beg for US$ 4 billion to prop up the Russian Ruble which had been falling like a stone compared to other currency. Last week Russian government bonds were downgraded to junk value with a corresponding fall in value of 74%! Obvious the Russians will not be starting the platinum mining project their signed with Mugabe for a long time. They have taken up the offer, the sweeter to the platinum deal, to join in the looting of Zimbabwe's diamonds in Marange – just another big leak in which Zimbabwe is the poorer for it.
Like it or not, unless Mugabe can rig economic recovery; so far he has failed to do so and now he has clearly run out of options; then he will be forced to step down because the economic meltdown is set to get worse as long as Mugabe and/or Zanu PF remain in power.
The people of Zimbabwe have suffered great economic hardships and there is a limit to what even they with their "legendary resilience", Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi boasted of, can take. That limit cannot be far off now and once reached the social unrest, after all the decades of bottled up frustration and anger, that result could be a tsunami that no one can stop. Mugabe and his tyrannical thugs will be sweep away like palm leaves in a surf. And the death and destruction it will cause will shock us all and set back the nation for a generation. Surely, that is not what we want!
For the last 35 years it has been Mugabe and Zanu PF alone who have decided who ruled Zimbabwe with all the rest of the people denied any meaningful say. What Mugabe and his cronies like Kasukewere have failed to see is the political system they were imposing on the nation was corrupt and wasteful and therefore doomed to fail. And 35 years it has finally failed; they are just too drunk on power and their egotistic sense of invisibility to notice the game is up.
Yes Minister Kasukuwere, Mugabe reign of terror is over; he is leaving State House whether he likes it or not because the cup is full to overflowing, his time is up!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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