Mugabe Prints 2.2 Million Passports
11 April 2016
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AnalysisSukoluhle Sibanda| President Robert Mugabe is printing over 2.2 millions passports. This emerged from his recent mass-printing machine plant he commissioned last week in Harare. Mugabe installed a state-of-the-art passport production centre at KGVI, which prints 16,000 booklets daily. “We’re happy as a country to be among the pioneers of e-passport production,” said Mugabe, while celebrating.
 
Mugabe’s ZimAsset programme was poised to deliver more than 2,2 million new jobs which the liberation movement promised during the election campaign as well as fire recovery and growth of the country’s economy.
Other promises in the economic blueprint included 250 000 low income housing units, 310 public schools and 300 clinics, but struggling ordinary Zimbabweans have seen little, if any, of the promised million new jobs with company closures continuing — pushing the unemployment rate to over 85 percent.
 
Actually, the opposite is happening. Instead of 2.2 million jobs, Mugabe is in a rush to print 2.2 million passports so to banish sons and daughters of the soil. An estimated 40 000 graduates from universities and other tertiary institutions whose eyes are now on the diasporan pastures, are resorting to vending to make ends meet while access to health care has become a dream. Meanwhile, Zanu PF officials are busy engaging in a vicious power struggle as different factions fight to replace the 92-year-old Mugabe.
 
The economy, which soon after the 2013 elections Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa predicted would grow by 6,1 percent, has hit a bad patch with the government being forced to reverse its economic growth forecasts every quarter. Shame shame shame!

5 Replies to “Mugabe Prints 2.2 Million Passports”

  1. Sukoluhle talking this way about Mugabe and govt make people disappear in Zimbabwe. Consider yourself warned!!

  2. Sukoluhle talking this way about Mugabe and govt make people disappear in Zimbabwe. Consider yourself warned!!

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