“Runaway Opposition Politics Behind Runaway Market Activities”: Says Charamba. FACT OR UTTER RUBBISH?
30 June 2020
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Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet (in charge of communications) Mr George Charamba has attributed the country’s woes to “a political dimension which is a result of a multi-pronged assault from some elements determined to turn the public against President Mnangagwa and the Second Republic.”

In an interview with the state publication The Herald, Charamba said:

“There is a very strange coincidence that we have noticed over quite some months between the implosive politics within the opposition, self-implosive politics, and heightened illicit activity in the economy.

You have that mayhem in the MDC whose sum effect is that of weakening the opposition in the country on the one and then you have increased below the law and out of the law activities in the economy.

We have realised that there is a clear nexus between runaway market activities and runaway opposition politics, that more and more, the security threat to this country, the destabilisation to this country is finding expressing through the market, so there is heightened smuggling of gold, there is heightened transactions, there is release of precious foreign currency into the black market, all to create a generalised instability which have the effect of creating disenchantment on the part of the Government.

“The politics are being shaped from the market, it is as if we are being told, if you won’t have MDC-Alliance for an opposition then we will create an opposition for you through illicit market activities, through illicit NGOs, through disgruntled unions and through embassies mostly so given to making anti-government statements, when you coalesce that you will realise that we are in a phase where destabilisation has assumed a market form. The calculation was a health sector led generalised public strike, we are aware of such plots.”