via ZANU PF facing its Waterloo? | SW Radio Africa 7 August 2014 by Nomalanga Moyo
As Zimbabwe’s economy continues to falter, some observers have said this could be what finally unravels the ruling ZANU PF regime.
The country is experiencing record company closures, record unemployment levels, a serious shortage of cash and no foreign investment, yet the ruling party continues to do nothing.
Economists and all Zimbabweans with any commonsense have pleaded for economic reforms and an overhaul of the country’s harmful empowerment laws.
The indigenisation and empowerment law gives the ruling party power to expropriate 51% of all foreign investment in the country and the same policy has been used to invade and wreak havoc on white-owned commercial farms.
Many Zimbabweans want the invasions to stop and say they have reduced them to a nation of beggars who now have to rely on donations of food from wellwishers.
Last year the opposition MDC-T warned the ZANU PF government that the economy will not be as easy to rig as the July 31st election.
In a recent interview with SW Radio Africa, ex Finance Minister Tendai Biti said unless ZANU PF changes and starts taking the needs of Zimbabweans seriously, there will be an uprising that will overthrow the regime.
Biti cited the power struggles and infighting, the cash crisis, massive de-industrialisation, a huge budget deficit as well as a restive Zim population, as some of the key ingredients that will lead to the regime’s collapse.
“In the next two months I can tell you that the government will fail to pay civil servants because it has no money and the banks will also run dry and those affected may not continue to take that lying down,” Biti said.
This week a bankers association warned that the country will run out of money soon, spelling even more disaster for the dead economy.
A global market analyst, the Econometer Global Capital, has said Zimbabwe’s economy is set to shrink even further in the second half of the year.
“An average of two medium-sized corporates, five small enterprises and 0.5 large corporates close shop every month in Zimbabwe with smaller towns the most affected by de-industrialisation.
“This calls for the nation to urgently revise policies which directly and significantly impact negatively on the job creation prospects which includes the blanketing indigenisation policy,” says the report.
The ruling party, which promised at least 2.4 million jobs once back in full control, has failed to deliver but its leader President Robert Mugabe insists the economy is on the mend.
Speaking on the Big Picture Programme, Dzimbabwe Chimbga, a campaigner with the Zim Lawyers for Human Rights said while they do not wish for any political party to collapse, ZANU PF’s arrogance and failure to respect citizens will be its undoing.
“As long as ZANU PF adheres to the current political culture that promotes the butchering of people, fails to attend to their economic and cultural needs, and does not respect their human rights, they are on their way out.
“They have failed to address the challenges facing Zimbabweans and Mugabe, who has been the glue holding them together,r does not have long to live, that will bring them down,” Chimbga added.
COMMENTS
Goodnight Zimbabalooba you reap what you sow!!!!
This is judgment: God’s judgment on a festering, evil, oppressive, corrupt, greedy, lying, vote stealing regime that has blood on their hands. I believe that, like all of us miserable sinners, ZPF have had much opportunity to repent and turn and begin to do what is right. They have not listened to any voice of reason. They brush aside the prophetic voice that the Lord has sent them and they refuse to listen to their fellow Zimbabweans. Their arrogance and pride will bring them down. ZPF think that God has slept through the atrocities of the eighties, through the terrible injustice and racialistic farm debacle, through the tragedy that was the murambatsvina, through all the oppression, bloodshed, lost lives, crooked laws, dark happenings in torture chambers and police stations, lies cooked up at every hidden meeting, and dark deeds that have beset this nation. ZPF things that God does not see the suffering of the poor, the elderly, the sick, the unemployed, the tortured, the raped, the oppressed threatened people. They thing God is blind to all their overstuffed wallets and bank accounts in secret places; money that belongs to the nation. ZPF are so blinded and so decieved that they have forgotten that God is an all seeing, all knowing and all powerful God. They do not understand that besides being a God of incredible love and longsuffering He is also a God of justice and righteousness and that no man’s sin will go unpunished. ZPF have lost their fear of God-if they ever had it in the first place. And that is a very dangerous place to be. SA, SADC, the AU and the west have failed to unseat them. The people of Zimbabwe have had their choice for a new leadership stolen from them many times but in history every mighty empire has fallen. Do ZPF actually believe that they will be an exception. My strong and very concerned advice for ZPF is to fall on their knees and repent and also to get themselves a new leader. You have truly chained yourself to a place that is going nowhere except into the pit. No repentance! No restoration!
Fools, fools, fools. Those closing companies are closing the last chapter of Rhodesia and helping to open a new chapter for Zimbabwe. Former white farmers destroyed, country wide, the antiqueted infrastructure on their farms thinking that that would help to stop land reform. The opposit happened. Former white farmers destroyed Rhodesian infrastructure on farms and now new and modern infrastructure is being installed on the very farms.
Those closing factories are doing a fantastic job to burry Rhodesia. Most of the machinery in those factories being closed now can only be found in the Smithsonian Institute Museums and nowhere else. The products produced by those antiquated machines are expensive and cannot compete on the international market. So please go ahead and close those damn factories and help us burry the legacy of Rhodesia. To think that Smith sent three quarters of the white male population to war, where they were wiped out, to defend these factories which are being destroyed by those who are supposed to inherit them is laughable.
We are laughing to see those who fought tooth and nail defending Rhodesia now destroying what they fought and died for. We are laughing at Rhodesia. If we had known that Rhodesia was going to self destruct we would not have sent our children to join the liberation struggle. There goes the antiquetted companies and factories and there goes Rhodesia for ever. I pitty those who lost loved ones defending it. We are laughing at Rhodesia!!!!
So there is at least one escapee/survivor from Jonestown.
Albert appears to have been smoking his socks! If not, he must have dropped on his head at birth because he writes deluded rubbish devoid of fact.
I’ve seen the dreck of your articles. Begone, Zanu apologist. Everyone capable of even modest amounts of reason and logic know that, economically, Rhodesia was exponentially better. Zimbabwe is a failed state, but don’t qualify your racism. It’s okay. We know you just don’t like white people.
Um, three quarters of the white population… where they were wiped out?!
Hilarious. The Rhodesians never lost a battle. Green Leader is the nightmare of every Zanu comrade.
You coward. You wouldn’t have lasted ten minutes in Rhodesia.
They lost the war.
Umwrong, you fool!!!! I am resoponsible for some of the most defining acts of resistance against the Rhodesian military and my exploits spanned a period of ten years, not ten minutes as you dream. Even now, are you not surprised that despite some of the most elaborate plans ever devised to topple a third world government nothing seems to work and Zimbabwe is marching forward from one month to the other and from one year to the other. You would be shocked if only you knew who is behind that. I cannot say the same about you. I happen to know how hurt you are. Your lot used to fill restaurants and hotels in the morning as family groups to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. You used to go on holidays three to five times a year but now, you are just like ordinary people, no longer able to enjoy life as you used to.
Rhodesia self destructed through their racist policies – and Zimbabwe now does the same.
So much for honesty; Where did you get your information from? Wishful thinking.
Zinwamhanga you are very shallow upstairs. This is not a game anymore but a matter of life and death. You are cynically celebrating the closure of businesses and as a result 90% of the population is unemployed. Do you know the consequences of such a situation? Of course your warped mind cant see the resultant suffering by the majority of zimbabweans. People are dying because they have no money to access health facilities. Children die because of malnutrion. Many drop out of school and even mr chinamasa is having sleepless nights because zimra is unable to raise money because of company closures. Your hatred of the white people is not going to take us out of the dark pit in which we are. Its obvious that you are one of the very few in zimbabwe who are over fed and well protected. But then there is this saying which says your chickens can never be safe when your next door neighbour is hungry. You are obviously a heartless person. You are blinded by this ridiculous sense of patriotism and black nationalism which make you see a dangerous whiteman behind every bush. Wake up from your utopia and face reality. The reality is that this country is in a big mess and it needs men and women of vision- people who not blinded by selfish gains like you. We want people who can think beyond their privileged and cushioned positions and work out solutions for this country. You are certainly living in a time machine. This is zimbabwe in 2014 and not rhodesia in 1979. The whites have since gone and its us alone messing and destroying this country.
Mutakura, uri mutakura wendove yenzou, kana uri iwo mutakura wamunobika kumba kwamai vako. In all your rant against me, not once did you mention sanctions. If we were so good at destroying our own economy as you stupidly say, then the West should have just folded their hands and watched us destroy our country. But no, they had to impose sanctions to bring about the situation you are describing and attributing to our people-oriented government. Can you imagine right now America has confisticated scores of millions of dollars of our money. Why do you not mention that. You are one of those who used to rejoice when MDC was organising the so called Stay Aways. That destroyed our economy and you never mention that – you only allege that it is Zanu pf that destroyed the economy. Shame on you Mutakura. Your brain is coocked and is now a Mutakura, just like your name. You do not even blame MDC for calling for sanctions. Even now as you say people are suffering, the MDC is never calling for the removal of sanctions but is daily urging the West to maintain them. You are blaiming the wrong people.
@ Albert what have you been smoking dear chap?????
From the look of things it seems we are heading for a Fourth Revolution……If you stretch people’s patience too far you breed an uprising. Now people are becoming impatient and angry. If they have nothing to lose they can be ripe for and uprising. Lets avoid this impending catastrophe by doing something like yesterday. Who thought the docile Libyans would revolt, Never underestimate desperate people. Please remove mad policies and reengage the ECONOMY like YESTERDAY….Be ware the ides of March…..
Johnson, if anything Lybians have learnt that they were blind marched by people like you to destroy the best government they ever had under Gaddafi. Africa in general and Zimbabwe in particular has learnt from what happened in Lybia that a good government good for the Africans and bad for those lice that feed on the wealth of others, the West should never be discarded. Lybia is not a country now but a war zone where only the West is stealing the oil without accounting to anyone. You think we want to be like Lybia? You must be joking Johnston.
The urgency is on you, Johnson, Kevin Watson and other Rhodies who miss the privilege they enjoyed in Rhodesia. Zimbabweans will never surrender their land, their freedom and their right to do what they want in their own country. I tell you, I will never lose sleep over what happens in Britain, America and Europe. One wonders why they have to lose sleep over what happens n our country? Johnson, Kevin Watson and all those calling for, and organising a war in Zimbabwe, you will die before you see that war. If you want war, send your own children to die in that war!!! Our children will not fight to restore your former privilege. You are very angry that I said we are laughing at Rhodesia. You are closing factories thinking that our children will revolt. Those who lose jobs will gain something far more important and that lasts longer and forever than your enslaving factories – the land. The more factories close, the more land we take from the remaing userpers of the land to give it back to those loosing jobs. One other thing, Kevin Watson, an MDC voter who loses a job as you close factories becomes a ZANU PF voter once he gets land and as long as he remains on the land. CHECK MATE!!! You people have no brains at all. The crushing defeat of the MDC in 2013 was exactly caused by the phenomenon I mentioned. Now all former farmers are living as pawpers in towns and their children like Ben Freeth< Kevin Watson and others are desperately galavanting the globe trying to mobilese a force to fight Zimbabwe to no avail. Ben Freeth is not as rich as he used to be. He will die a pawper too without having achieved anything, you too Kevin Watson and the rest of your minions. Zimbabwe will never be a colony again – when are you going to get that into your thick skulls?
This Albert creature is reflecting his master Chombo whos last words to me where that he did not care if he took the country back 150 years. Maybe his wish will come true!
Sounds like Pol Pot has reincarnated?
Albert is from the stone age forgive the poor fool for he know not what he do.
This Albert, I believe, does not even live in Zimbabwe. If he does he must have a white stick because he cannot see what is happening around him. He has escaped from a nuthouse or lunatic asylum. Never read such carbage from an adult , once I had deciphered what he was trying to day as he cannot spell. Then again this ten year war vet almost certainly was not born before 1980. Probably one of the young so called vets that were burning his own honest peoples homes in order to steal the fruits of another citizens labour, that is if he has ever been there. Mind boggling rubbish.
OK Mr Albert, how many people here agree with you?
I know that you are a very worried person, sitting on a lot of things that you stole.
Good luck!