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Mnangagwa Hit With Shame as Belarus Investors Pull Away
19 July 2015
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ANALYSIS| Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been snubbed by investors in Belarus.
Mnangagwa and his large group of hangers-on who arrived in Belarus on Saturday afternoon were met with an atmosphere of doubt and scepticism on landing with only that government’s officials paying an interest to them.
Mnangagwa of whom the State Media had earlier claimed that investors where in the wait, is now only to perform paper work signing. The government has revealed that there is now nothing more the vice president has to do beyond mere government to government papers.
On Sunday, Mnangagwa is scheduled to meet the Belarus President Alexandra Okashengo on Monday as well as witness the signing of the memorandum of understanding between the two countries, after being given a tour at a tractor factory.
Two companies interested in mining expressed and quoted in a business weekly expressed scepticism at Zimbabwe indigenization policies.
The only thing noteworthy between the two governments is a multi-million dollar equipment donation for the refurbishment of the Hwange power plant Belarus recently dished out to Zimbabwe. But does Zimbabwe need any donations from Europe?
 
*What Happened to the Rhodesia Puma and Car Making Industries? *
Rhodesia (Zimbabwe’s former name) used to make its own brand vehicles, some for warfare, the powerful Puma, a classical example.
The infamous Selous Scouts designed 4X4 car locally made. ( anyone remember its name?) Another local Zim vehicle the Hillman where is it today?
As can be seen, former Prime Minister Ian Smith managed to make Zimbabwe’s economy boom and he actually prospered right in the middle of sanctions from outside and a bloody war within.
Trucks were made in Zimbabwe and at agricultural colleges, farming students were taught how to build tractors. Today all this is no more and the Central Bank RBZ has blown hundreds of millions importing the John Deer tractors expensively from Britain, EU, USA and Asia. What happened to our own manufacturing industries?
During a discussion on the Zimbabwe Policy Dialogue Institute, it was discovered that these industries are still there right now but operations were shut down because government simply did not want to use the companies for cheap political reasons.
After answering these questions, we will realise that industry and wealth are right here in Zimbabwe and this great country does not need any donations from Europe.

11 Replies to “Mnangagwa Hit With Shame as Belarus Investors Pull Away”

  3. There are no sanctions you useless uneducated idiot…you are obviously so brainwashed that you believe everything your thieving, pillaging Shona masters tell you. What you must understand silungisn you stupid uneducated fool, the white folk are tired of investing in your country to then watch as your Shona kith and kin plunder loot and eventually steal the company as they did with the farms. You didn’t want the land, you just wanted to see what it was like living in a white mans castle after you’ve all lived in mud huts all these years. Then when you moved into their houses because you are so u educated and useless you started making fires on the floors in the rooms…what useless scum!!! Thais is why white folk won’t invest in you fools. We are ALL biding our time for when the country becomes ripe for recolonization…that comrades, is just around the corner because we are watching you atarve as less and less Western countries are giving you food aid!!!

  4. so after Belarus which country have we not gone to beg? he may have to pass through zambia begging maize.

  5. so after Belarus which country have we not gone to beg? he may have to pass through zambia begging maize.

  6. so after Belarus which country have we not gone to beg? he may have to pass through zambia begging maize.

  7. Europeans wont invest in Zimbabwe as long as illegal Sanctions are still active in Zimbabwe………

  8. Europeans wont invest in Zimbabwe as long as illegal Sanctions are still active in Zimbabwe………

  9. Europeans wont invest in Zimbabwe as long as illegal Sanctions are still active in Zimbabwe………

  10. Mugabe has been able to bribe, bamboozle, rig the vote and even murder his political challenger both within his own party and outside and stayed in power for these 35 years. However he has now met more than his match in the economy, after decades of mismanagement, corruption and lawlessness these evils have come back home to haunt him.
    Mugabe had placed all his hopes of rigging economic recovery with his ZimAsset plan which was designed to throw $27 billion at the economy to overwhelm all the wastefulness due to mismanagement, etc. The problem with his plan is that he needed some donor to bankroll his hare-brain scheme; beside the two post dated and unredeemable cheques from the Chinese and Russians the ZimAsset begging bowl in empty.
    So VP Mnangagwa had gone to Belarus with the ZimAsset begging bowl and came back empty handed. He and his entourage spent a lot of money on expenses and have nothing to show for it. So where to next now?
    After 35 years of absolute power it is the economy that is going to force Mugabe and Zanu PF out of power; the tyrant cannot bribe, bamboozle or murder mismanagement or corruption. The only way to end mismanagement and corruption is by destroying the Zanu PF political patronage system which is the very system that has kept Mugabe and Zanu PF in power all these years.
    Mugabe and Zanu PF, through mismanagement and corruption, have eaten themselves out of a home in that they are the ones who created the mismanagement, corruption and lawlessness behind the economic meltdown. Yes, “It is the economy stupid!”, as former US President Bill Clinton would have said, that is going to end the Zanu PF dictatorship!
    The economic meltdown has triggered a dog-eat-dog fight within Zanu PF itself; the tyrannical party is imploding. The truth of Mugabe as an incompetent, corrupt
    and murderous tyrant is going to come out in all its ugliness. What a magnanimous end to the tyrant who has tried so hard to portray himself as a great statesman, a Pan-African of unparalleled intellect.

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