Farai Dziva|Social media analyst Antony Taruvinga has said the ruling party Zanu PF is an impediment to economic recovery.
See Taruvinga’s statement :
You celebrate budget surplus, of the money that you get from taxing to death the poor. That is not an indicator of a ticking economy. Hospitals are an eye sore and roads have become death traps.
Prices are sky rocketing daily and industry is dead. Stealing from people to get a surplus in the budget isnt a way to turn around this economy. The other day, ED was talking of the possibility of having a new currency. What’s the sense of introducing a new currency on a dead economy? It will be eroded of any of its value in no time.
That money they call surplus isnt going to be injected into the economy in any meaningful way, its getting squandered by Zanu pf politicians. They are celebrating that dollars have come to their households. You will not know where it went.
This economy, or its remains, needs discipline in the way goverment manages people’s money. There is too much leakage of dollars. Corruption is rampant and real burden. No one in Zanu pf can arrest anyone for corruption which means they can steal as much as they wish.
Misplaced priorities is a disease with Mnangagwa. Hiring very expensive planes, flying people overseas for treatment, financing the abduction of dissenting voices, financing the infamous POLAD are all examples of wrong priorities. Less important if not unimportant things are financed first and pressing issues like drugs in the hospitals get no cent.
Production and extraction industry must re open, thus creating employment and at the same time exporting to get foreign currency and cure trade deficit. There cant be an economy that relies on importing everything. Industries must produce smoke and farms must be green. There has to be a beehive of activity.
How does that happen? Farms must be re allocated to farmers not chancers in Zanu pf. White commercial farmers, preferably citizens, who were chased away must be given an opportunity to either own land or lease land in Zimbabwe. A farmer must be a farmer and a banker must be one.
We have a political crisis in Zimbabwe. A crisis emanating from a rigged election. A rigged outcome that gave people a president they did not vote for. The people hate and distrust this government and the government turns to forceful means to cow people into submission, making it worse. A killer government can never deliver! All the three, Mnangagwa, Mohadi and Chiwenga, are uninspiring.
By mere looking at them, one gets no hope. There are all clueless. And the “all talk and no action” finance minister Mthuli Ncube completes the circus. Always exuding nonsense as if he lives outside Zimbabwe.
This political crisis augmented with army killings and discouraging investment laws has chased away Foreign Direct Investment. Investors can not trust with their money a government whose legitimacy and legality is questionable. Investors are not donors, they are pushed by the desire to make profits.
Without a true political dialogue, its another term of misery and there is no guarantee that the next election will be free and fair. Actually, signs are showing as evidenced by MOPA BILL that seeks to replace POSA that Zanu PF aims at cosmetic fake reforms.
