Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday shamelessly boasted saying that Zimbabwe has the world’s largest stash of minerals.
At a time when the country is embarrassing itself through begging for aid and this week going to the extent of celebrating donations of basics such as rice from struggling nations the likes of India, the VP yesterday torched storm with critics as he boasted saying the country has the largest stash of mineral assortments.
Zimbabwe has the world’s largest civil servant salary bill which accounts for over 80 percent of government expenditure, meaning that a paltry amount remains for crucial infrastructure development projects, critical for the economy. This also comes against a backdrop of the country having the world’s largest number of Government Ministers judging by population ratios.
But Mnangagwa continued his boast saying, “once we believe in ourselves as Zimbabweans, that this is our country, we must put our shoulders to the wheel and achieve the desired development.”
He added, “God blessed this country with minerals. We have everything. Out of the 21 special minerals in the world, we have 19. What is needed is unity and planning together,” he said.
Mnangagwa added saying Zimbabweans should defend what he termed their sovereignty. “As we celebrate Heroes Day, let us remember that we are Zimbabweans because of some people who died.”
He continued, “all living, including the youths, should remember that without unity, the liberation struggle would not have been a success. Yes, rebels were there, but overally people were united. The philosophy behind this concept (Heroes Day) is to ensure that generation after generation, continues to remember that our Independence came as a result of our own people sacrificing.
“In that process, many comrades died, many were maimed but the objective was one – that we become ourselves, sovereign and independent.” Mnangagwa went on: “We must always remind our children that we are now Zimbabweans as a result of sacrifice. That will not repeat itself, but we would want that type of patriotism to be embedded into the younger generation, patriotism that Zimbabweans come first, my life comes second. That is the spirit we would want to show.
“As we assemble at the national shrine, to our comrades, the gallant fighters who shed their lives during the struggle and after the struggle, who stood by the correct line of the revolution, we are saying to them we have not forgotten. You are heroes of the revolution, heroes of the birth of this country. That is why we put aside this day to remember, recognise and celebrate the heroic acts of those lying at the shrine.”
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Mnangwa is Shona and supposedly has a law degree. Mugabe has chains of them; but he cant build even a thatched mud hut. This should ge very embarassing to Shonas, dont you think?
Mnangwa is Shona and supposedly has a law degree. Mugabe has chains of them; but he cant build even a thatched mud hut. This should ge very embarassing to Shonas, dont you think?
Yesss, we have minerals! And we shall exchange them all for hashish and we shall smoke them and we shall have some mugabe good time! Where’s the next rally, I need a t-shirt with bob’s picture on it, size XXL. I also need a modest residential stand to build a house on it and sell some airtime to buy some hashish or have I said it already? I forget.
True that. Good advice. Now on Mnangangwa, this man is very dull, as others have already said, minerals are just stones on the ground until you have efficient means to extract them and add value to them. Besides that if the missing $15 billion dollars from Marange diamonds are anything to go by, Mnangagwa’s speech is nothing but hot air. Examples of Venezuela, Nigeria and the DRC couldn’t be more appropriate. What use are those minerals to the rest of the population if proceeds always benefit the corrupt few? Shameless man!
Over generalization is not inspired by rationality but usually by very strong emotions. You over generalize that Shonas are not very intelligent. This hatred and animosity towards Shonas will do no harm to the Shonas, but it eats you up from the inside. I don’t know exactly the motivation for your hatred , but hatred only affects you in the long term. I would urge you to pursue love and peace for your own sake primarily.
I am a geologist, one of the only class of professionals qualified to comment on Zimbabwe’s minerals and mining. The bottom line is most of the mineral we claim to have have not been proven especially the quantities. Mineral deposits are not just in Zimbabwe; they are almost every where. Then, most importantly, minerals are just stones until get them from the ground and you sell them. These minerals mean NOTHING at all to the country as the situation stands.
The claim of minerals is a stone age mentality. Look at Venezuela, a country rich in oil and how it has gone down the drain. This is a knowledge century, where countries can only flourish if they provide an environment in which their people can live in dignity and realise their potential. It is sad to hear an aspiring presidential candidate talk like a 92 years old Robert Gabriel Mugabe. The Zimbabwean economy is far much smaller than Microsoft software strategic business unit and you tell us about stones. Please Mnangagwa or whatever you call yourself, you need to update your knowledge to be relevant in this century. In you current form, you are so yesterday.
For the past 36years what have u been doing ehh
The weakness of a prostitute is the thinking that exposing her private parts to the public makes her acceptable to men. Selling her reproductive system for money not to create a family, that is Mnangagwa for you, planning to sell Zimbabwe’s resources at the expense of future generations. No wonder Mugabe wants him out, he is facilitator of white supremacy.
The weakness of a prostitute is the thinking that exposing her private parts to the public makes her acceptable to men. Selling her reproductive system for money not to create a family, that is Mnangagwa for you, planning to sell Zimbabwe’s resources at the expense of future generations. No wonder Mugabe wants him out, he is facilitator of white supremacy.
Shonas are not very intelligent. Most of those with University Degrees, its like they copied and plagarised other people’s work.
So the world is reading this idiocy from a Vice President of a country?
Whats is the use of minerals underground when you have neither skill nor capital to get them from there, value add to them and generate income?
Even the DRC with all its glaring poverty is rich in Minerals. Since the 1970s Nigeria has had oil, but till to day they are poor and dont even have one oil refinery.
Shonas are not very intelligent. Most of those with University Degrees, its like they copied and plagarised other people’s work.
So the world is reading this idiocy from a Vice President of a country?
Whats is the use of minerals underground when you have neither skill nor capital to get them from there, value add to them and generate income?
Even the DRC with all its glaring poverty is rich in Minerals. Since the 1970s Nigeria has had oil, but till to day they are poor and dont even have one oil refinery.