via Min: Prayer will revive collapsed industries – NewZimbabwe 29/01/2016
HARARE Provincial Affairs Minister Miriam Chikukwa says collapsed industries and the faltering economy will be revived if the nation prays.
According to the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, the country’s unemployment rate is hovering at around 90% owing to continued company closures.
Critics blame the country’s problems on inept stewardship of the economy by President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party, policies that drive away investors as well as corruption, among a host of challenges.
The ruling party has, to date, failed to deliver on a 2013 election campaign promise to create 2.2 million jobs new jobs.
Chikukwa, on Friday, appealed to the representatives of the local Christian and Muslim community to pray for industries to re-open.
She was announcing the national Inter-Faith Day to be held in Harare on February 6 at the City Sports Centre.
“If you look at the industries,” she said.
“I know a lot of people including Christians and Muslims have been saying industries have closed and when I look at them I say they will come again according to Ezekiel 37 which says ‘every bone in the valley will know where it is supposed to go’ …
“ … and I believe very well that after this prayer (6 February) when we come together we will have more development economically, spiritually, socially and politically.”
Earlier this month Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko said prayers were the panacea to the hunger and economic challenges stalking Zimbabwe.
He then challenged the church and the entire nation to pray so that the country could be delivered.
Mphoko’s proposed solution was however, dismissed by Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi who said what Zimbabwe needed together with prayer was creativity and proper economic planning.
The minister said if Zimbabwe made use of the land and irrigation infrastructure it seized from former white commercial farmers it would not be complaining about drought.
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