via Ministerial stupidity – The Zimbabwean 28 January 2015 by Jera
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa has accused local company executives of lacking ideas and ambition. Chinamasa rattled on with some pugilistic metaphor – accusing one corporation of ‘punching below its weight.’ It is hard to tell whether the minister is referring to company executives or the Zanu (PF) government.
Just 2 months ago, at his budget presentation, Chinamasa stated that 4,600 companies had shut down since 2011, resulting in 55,400 job losses. Some corporations, foreseeing disaster, relocated to neighbouring countries, from where they now export to us goods that at one time were manufactured in Workington. Even government-owned businesses such as CSC – which is really just cattle herding on a grand scale – have collapsed.
If Chinamasa stopped talking for a moment, he would realise that he is part of the problem. It is government’s duty to create an environment conducive for business. If anything, any CEO whose company has survived Zanu (PF) deserves a giant shiny medal.
Minister of Welfare Services for War Veterans, War Collaborators, Former Political Detainees, Christopher Mutsvanga, again reiterated his call for war veterans to ‘take up the fight in order to accelerate the successful implementation of ZimAsset.’
Honestly, Mutsvangwa is trying to squeeze milk from a bullock. These are the same war veterans who, upon receiving fully equipped farms, uprooted fences, slaughtered eland for meat, sold tractors and returned to their land where they now dig for mice all year.
Without the necessary funding, Zanu (PF) can sing the ZimAsset song until 2018 but nothing will come from it. Perhaps Mutsvangwa found himself confronted by a reporter’s camera and microphone. What was the man to do! He blurted out whatever came to mind.
COMMENTS
I would love to see the Minister try and run a business in Zimbabwe and comply with all the matters that we have to….NSSA, NEC, ZIMRA – PAYE, VAT, AIDS LEVY, QPD’S, RETURNS _ Manpower Levy, Standards Development Levy, Factories Act, City of Harare Licences,EMA, borehole licences, vehicle licences ZBC licences, Unions etc, etc…….the list goes on and on and we spend more time paying and doing returns for those totally inept,incompetent and useless organisations than we do on our businesses !!And what do we get back for all of the above..a big fat zero !!!Easier to set up stall at MAGABA and trade for cash.
You see this in Zimbabwe every year when we talk of the economy but what baffles me the most is “do we still have an economy to talk about?” Where it not of the balled head tea-boy Mr Teee…. and his crooks in the gangster party MDC-T who saved ZANU PF from the brink of collapse we could have been speaking a different story.
Now he his calling for another multi-party meeting where he brags that he is the majority. Cry Zimbabwe cry. Ayo makomo makomo arikure andifungisa Zimbabwe.
As of Chinamasa, there is no need to waste time talking about him and his masters because it’s not worth the salt. Mafia running a country. Anyone who knows Chinamasa please, please send him this link. And done forget to watch it with your friends and family, it explains how Is real, a small country in the middle of barren sand without fresh water has turned that land into a jewel of the middle east from using brains, to find out how, click this link: http://youtu.be/XuoGU8mv27k
I thank you.
Chemutengure, Chamunorwa, Dongeri.
“If anything, any CEO whose company has survived Zanu (PF)policonomics deserves a giant shiny medal.”
The Heading is very befitting Mr Editor
funny but true