By Wilbert Mukori| zsdemocrats.blogspot.co.uk| We all welcome praise but not from every quarter because praise from certain quarters is but a curse. Here is a typical example of praise from the wrong quarter.
“President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s inauguration speech was in a class of its own in terms of vision, strategy and content,” started an article by Dr Gideon Gono.
Nonsense! President Mnangagwa’s inauguration speech was one of the worse speeches in human history it lacked any cohesion and was full of contradiction. With Zimbabwe in total economic meltdown with unemployment a nauseating 90% and 72.3% of the people living on US$ 1.00 or less per day; even he could not deny the country was in a mess due to “errors of commission or omission”.
“I implore you all to declare that NEVER AGAIN should the circumstances that have put Zimbabwe in an unfavourable position be allowed to recur or overshadow its prospects. We must work together, you, me, all of us who make up this Nation,” said Mnangagwa, in a determined effort to break from the past.
“This is a formidable head-start we draw from our past, a plinth upon which to build developments in the present and to erect hopes for the future,” he continued, clearly being dragged back into the past as if by some invisible dark force.
“Fellow Zimbabweans, as we chart our way forward, we must accept that our challenges as a nation emanate in part from the manner in which we have managed our politics, both nationally and internationally, leading to circumstances in which our country has undeservedly been perceived or classified as a pariah State.” The dark force had won.
Of course, Zimbabwe is a pariah State ruled by incompetent, corrupt, vote rigging and murderous thugs whose greed for absolute power and the influence and wealth it brings is insatiable. All President Mnangagwa has done so far is pay lip service to “democracy” and “new era” but failed has failed to do anything to show his willingness to implement the democratic reforms.
Former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, among other International leaders, reminded President Mnangagwa of the need to ensure next year’s elections are free, fair and credible. They can see that Zanu PF has changed its figure head but otherwise nothing else has changed. They are concerned it is business as usual with the pariah State!
President Mnangagwa’s recent cabinet appointments is full of individuals who believe that those who fought in the liberation war are the only one fit to rule Zimbabwe, hence the reason why they have a veto whilst the rest of us have a vote! The cabinet is now dominated by the individuals who have been central to the establishment and retaining of the de facto one-party state dictatorship that has ridden roughshod over the people’s freedoms and basic human rights including the right to free and fair election and even the right to life itself.
The right, not privilege, of every citizen to a meaningful say in the governance of the country is at the very heart of good governance because it is the only effective way of holding the governing accountable to the governed. If the ruled cannot dismiss, which is what a meaningful vote does, the rulers then what else is there to stop the latter doing as they please?
The root cause of Zimbabwe’s seemingly intractable political chaos and economic meltdown can all be trace back to the nation’s failure to reform Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs from office even when the nation had the overwhelming evidence the regime was corrupt, incompetent and oppressive. The greatest “error of commission and omission” Zimbabwe has made repeatedly in the last 37 years was its failure to hold free, fair and credible elections.
Zimbabwe will accomplish nothing, I repeat, nothing of any substance until we hold free and fair elections and end this foolishness of those in power rigging elections to extend their stay in power.
There is nothing in President Mnangagwa’s speech or actions since his swearing in that would make anyone believe he going to embrace democratic change. Only an idiot can see vision where there is no such thing!
“The President showed a clear, firm grasp of economics with his dose of what I would call “EDNomics”, proudly showing the world that here is a new Zimbabwe that is ready and open for business,” continue Dr Gideon Gono.
What “new Zimbabwe” is he wittering about? No one with even half a brain would be fooled into believe Zimbabwe has lost its pariah state status just by removing one dictator and replacing him with another. The real world works on well-established and understood economic principles grounded on political stability and not the usual voodoo economics formulated by same corrupt and incompetent political thugs of yesterday.
“I particularly liked the Dengism philosophy which he merged with his appeal to investors to come from all corners of the world,” came the EDNomic explaination .
“Now that is pragmatism in the mould of China’s former leader, Deng Xiaoping, who upon assuming leadership of China in the 1970s declared: “I do not care the colour of the cat, black or white … so long as it catches mice!”
“China’s illustrious growth today owes its genesis and greatness to that statement.
“I was particularly pleased, too, that the President mentioned special economic zones, promising to accelerate their establishment countrywide “in order to attract investment and generate increased exports, jobs and stimulate economic growth”.
“That statement alone, together with everything else he said, will get this economy flying to double digit growth rates with potential to propel this country to the levels of the likes of Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Korea and others in a very short space of time given our natural resources and literacy levels.”
Somethings never change! Mugabe appointed Gono the Czar of Zimbabwe’s economic zones, part of the regime’s ZimAsset policy which was supposed to create 2.2 million new jobs but only created two jobs for Mugabe’s daughter and her husband. The Zanu PF’s corrupt and incompetent fat cats have not caught any mice for 37 years and they are not going to catch any.
Talk of Zanu PF’s corrupt and incompetent fat cats, Gideon Gono is one of the heavy weights. Gono will be remembered as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor who presided over the country money printing crazy fuelling inflation to 500 billion per cent. Gono and his Zanu PF ruling elite made huge fortunes but at the cost of bankrupting the nation. Gonomics!
“What I’m saying is that it is not just the economic issues that I and many others listened to, but also, the political and social dimensions of the President’s speech,” continued the shameless cannery singing for its supper.
“I’m sure even President Mugabe himself must have been very proud of his mentee and successor regardless of the circumstances. I know he was.
“I particularly like the new President’s brand of EDNomics, EDPolitics and EDPlomacy.”
Take it ease of the sauce governor; President Mnangagwa knows Mugabe appointed you Czar of the Special Economic Zones and you are desperate to hold on to your post.
Singapore, South Korea, etc. have all prospered because the hold free, fair and credible elections which have forced each successive government to produce sound economic policies. Zimbabwe has the potential to be as prosperous as Singapore but has, instead, sunk to the bottom. We are the poorest nation on earth! All because we are stuck with this Zanu PF regime with its voodoo Gonomics or EDNomics for 37 years.
If Zimbabwe fails to hold free, fair and credible elections next year; this is a certainty, given the elections will be held with not even one democratic reform in place; the country will still be a pariah State. A pariah Zimbabwe pursuing the same Gonomics renamed EDNomics of the last 37 years will not deliver the economic recovery the nation is dying for. Never!
20 Replies to “Zimbabwe Can Be As Prosperous As Singapore, Says Gono – Not with “EDNomics””
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Foolishness is your first name!!
I am not going to back such foolishness
Well, it cant be tribal if its true. You and me know its true – the results are all there for all to see!!!
you think saying all shona are unable is not tribal? kkkkkkkkk and you believe yourself?
What tribal. No one is tribal here. Just the truth well spoken!!
kkkkkkkkk notice who is tribal now kkkk
Forget it. Mnangagwa will never deliver because he is a Shona!
kkkikikikk Lol wena Mukori fella.
You forget that Singapore has no Shonas. That is why it was successful!!
hatred alone will not help you. The majority of zimbabweans all they want is food on the table. We do not care who is in office.What we want is delivery of service. If Munangagwa delivers he has our vote. He has the floor. let him deliver
You have no mandate to force him. So stop talking like you have. Zanupf can only willingly do it.
Mnangagwa’s 37 years in government is there for all of us to see, the man is incompetent, corrupt, expert at vote rigging and a ruthless murderer. Only a first class idiot would fail to see that the nation will never prosper under his leadership. The people of Zimbabwe will never elect him into power in a free and fair elections and hence the reason why he will never agree to implement the democratic reforms.
He will have to be forced to implement the reforms and that is exactly what this is all about – force him to accept the implementation of all the reforms.
The right to free and fair elections is sacrosanct, it is not a privilege Mugabe, Mnangagwa or anyone can give to some and deny to others!
You, Sarah just keep watch you pretty eyes on Bond Notes, leave the democratic reforms to those with the intellect to understand what is at stake!
Could not agree with you more. The one thing Mnangagwa is not cleaning up is implementing the democratic reforms to stop him rigging the elections and stay in power.
”Zanu PF ichatonga! Igotonga!” (Zanu PF will rule! And rule!) He has often boasted.
Like Mugabe all Mnangagwa cares about is that he stays in power at all cost. Our top priority as a nation right now is to make sure we change our political system to ensure there are free, fair and credible elections, our only guarantee that no one will ever defy the democratic will on the people and stay in power for even one day longer than the people have allowed him to. Until we sort out the political mess of rigging elections this country will never get out of the political and economic mess we are in today.
Implementing the democratic reforms to dismantle the corrupt and oppressive dictatorship is the holy grail the people of Zimbabwe should focus all our time, energy and every penny on.
Sadly, there are some people like Sarah here who attention is easily drawn from the real big issue of our time to look at trivial matters. The Bond Notes have gain value from US$1.9 to 1.3 and already she is ready to declare Mnangagwa a saint forgetting all the looting, vote rigging and the thousands of innocent blood the tyrant has shed! Such is the foolishness of simpleton like her!
When the country became independent in 1980 many of us, myself included were cock sure Mugabe would deliver on his promise of guts ruzhinji it is fair to say many of us have eaten more than humble pie. I think being one of the 90% out of work or the 72.3% living on US$ 1.00 or less per day is a lot worse than eating humble pie. After all many of these people are facing a life and death situation.
What I have learnt from the foolishness of the last 37 years is that we the people must reclaim our democratic right to remove from office failed leaders. We would have never got this deep into the mess we are in today if we were able to remove Mugabe and his corrupt and tyrannical regime from office. The drive here is not some much to remove Mugabe but more significantly to end the political system that allowed Mugabe to stay in power regardless of our democratic wish.
ED has done nothing to make me believe he is going to implement the democratic reforms and that, right now, is my main concern. It should be your main concern too but I accept that it is not all of us who have eye to see who perceive and ear to hear who understand. You, my dear, have clearly failed to perceive and understand the single most important lesson of the last 37 years i.e. we must not allow ourselves ever again to be stuck with a corrupt and murderous tyrant. The solution is to dismantle the dictatorship a.s.a.p. which is what I am calling for.
“Already we are seeing the bond note gain strength from 1 SD = 1.9 bond to 1USD= 1.3 Bond,” you say.
If that is indeed true then well and good. But that is not going to take away my focus on getting the democratic reforms implemented. I want o make sure that if the Bond Notes should ever fall in value and the nation have lost confidence in ED the people can vote him out. The lesson of 2008 was clear enough the value of Z$ fall through with inflation soaring to 500 billion per cent and still the people could not vote Mugabe out! (There is no point in asking you if you ate humble pie then because we all did, including you Mugabe apologists!)
Prophet of doom
Mnangagwa is cleaning his own mess and he can not be a star for doing that. In fact he is one guy who is going to find the going too tough, as he is going to be under army control. What Zimbabweans should know is that as long as the army is out of control, we are doomed. Just changing a president does not guarantee prosperity. Check with other African countries and you you realise that, it takes more than chanfing a president for a nation to prosper.
Well written article. ZANU PF thugs are in full control, hoodwinking all that there is change, when all is just smoke. We have m8ssed change again. Change was only going to come with the demise of ZANU PF. Now that the thugs are once more in full control, we have more years to endure.
Singapore has been run by a clean disciplined dictatorship with higher national values that went beyond the narrow confines of families, tribes and regionalism. Zim is run by thieves who dont value human life. A people whose values are dominated by mwanawekumusha philosophies can not develop a nation!
The regime told us the US$ and the bond notes will be on par when the launched the latter and so it has failed to keep its promise. So what are you celebrating?
There are some things even Mugabe got right especially in the 1980s but that did not stop the country sinking into the economic and political mess it is in today, And until the day Mugabe was finally forced to resign there were paid agents on this site singing the dictator’s praises. I notice you have never said they have eaten humble pie.
President Mnangagwa is now the new paymaster for the Zanu PF apologist and it is to be expected they are all tripping over one another to praise Mnangagwa.
Will ED deliver free and fair elections or will he rig elections as he has always done in the past? The real taste is for him to deliver free and fair elections. Making sure that some of the billions of looted SU$ are available in the ATM to buy votes is simply not good enough.
Zanu PF is incapable of reforming itself that is one thing that we can be certain of. Dr Gono is praising President Mnangagwa’s flawed economic policies because they are as flawed his his own Gonomics. Gono, Mnangagwa, Mugabe there are all the same corrupt and incompetent individual playing different roles today compared to yesterday.
zimbabwe will achieve nothing according to Mukori. kkkk mukori has been wrong on many things and this one where he will eat humble pie again. Already we are seeing the bond note gain strength from 1 SD = 1.9 bond to 1USD= 1.3 Bond. Atm machines now dispensing usdollars. The man on the street has exprerienced relief no matter how little and Mukori from the terraces says nothing has been achieved. by the time we get to elections a lot will have happened. Ed will deliver and Mukori wll eat humble pie