Mavhinga argue Mugabe to focus on ZimAsset - with such confusion Mugabe will never bite the bullet!

Confusion in the Zimbabwe public over the political and economic reality in the country is stopping Mugabe accept the political reality that he has failed and the need for regime change.

"Instead of focusing on ZimAsset and how to finance it for economic development and the improvement of people's lives, Zanu-PF's focus now is on petty party positions which do not benefit the people. This party does not know how to put people first," Dewa Mavhinga said.

Get real Dewa!

Mugabe's ZimAsset plan was designed to throw lots and lots of cash, $27 billion to be exact, on the economy with no attempt being made to address the mismanagement and corruption behind the economic meltdown. The plan was to overwhelm these wasteful practices with the cash so that cash left over then be put to productive use resulting in the hoped for economic recovery.

No donor, not even the Chinese, have been sold to this hare-brain scheme and hence ZimAsset is now died because no one was prepared to bankroll the plan. No one in Zanu PF itself still talk of ZimAsset, they know the plan is dead in the water, and so they too must be surprised that someone like Dewa Mavhinga still thinks so highly of the plan!

Even the brain-dead Zanu PF hardliners have given up on ZimAsset and have been forced to revisit the party's time honoured "no regime change" stance and to question how much longer the party can resist implementing the democratic reforms which will spell its demise. The party has successfully rigged past elections to achieve the "no regime change" objective and got away with it. The country's worsening economic situation is forcing everything to be reviewed.

There is no doubt that the country is facing a serious economic meltdown, so serious it is not socially and politically unsustainable. Since Zanu PF's ZimAsset plan is died in the water and the party has no plan B to deliver the economic recovery and thus end the economic meltdown, the party has no choice but to accept the implementation of the cursed democratic reforms.

Since Zanu PF, at least as it is presently politically constituted, will never deliver any economic reforms it is imperative that democratic reforms are implemented and fresh free and fair elections held. The regime to emerge out of these elections will have the democratic mandate to carryout far reaching economic reforms and the confidence of donors and investors alike – the pre-requisites for economic recovery.

Mugabe is shrewd enough to know that the "no regime change" mantra that had saved him so well until now had ran its course and regime change is now as certain as sun rise. The only reason the tyrant has not bitten the bullet and stepped down is because he can see there is still a lot of confusion in the political opposition parties' camp and in the Zimbabwe public too. That anyone as prominent and respectable as Dewa Mavhinga should still be wittering about ZimAsset shows there are still a lot of confused Zimbabweans out there. As long as confusion continues to rule the roost, Mugabe will hope against hope that he will never have to accept regime change!