Ray Nkosi | As the ruling Zanu PF party continues to shoot itself in the foot over sound policies to resuscitate a dead economy, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sunk to the bottom of bottoms.

Mnangagwa is quoted in the local media saying; “What we are looking at as government is to have command mining, command health, command education so that we can revive our economy through these models.”

A position quickly dismissed by Information Minister, Christopher Mushowe, who said command economies, which were often associated with the political system of Communism, had no place in modern-day societies.

“I am the chief spokesperson for government policy and I never said that neither did government,” Mushowe told editors in a meeting on Friday.

“There is no command economy in Zimbabwe. You know we are not a command economy, ” he publicly contradicted Mnangagwa. “We respect property rights in this country and under that kind of arrangement there would be no respect for property rights. We are not communists,” the government spin doctor is quoted in the local Daily News saying.

A command economy works in contrast to a free market economy. In a free market economy, goods and services are produced by private enterprise with distribution occurring according to market forces.